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Munsell’s Lectures 


ON THE 

Mineral Food System 
of Health 


,. BY 

j. "guy munsell 

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Director of Munsell’s School of Health 
Editor of Munsell’s Mineral Food Bulletin 
Proprietor of Munsell’s Mineral Food Company 






Examined and Endorsed by 

DR, CHARLES S. GRABIN, M. D. 

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This book could never have been produced but 
for the loyal, faithful, and patient help of my com¬ 
panion in life. It is, therefore, most fitting that I 
dedicate this work to my charming and helpful 
wife. 

—The Author. 


Published by MunselPs Mineral Food Co. 
(Copyright 1924) 

All Rights Reserved. 

MAY -2 ’24 

©Cl A 792440 


FOREWORD 



'HE world has been filled with all sorts of pro- 


L fessional cults aiming to cure diseases, all of 
which have their limitations and are, therefore, 
more or less successful, depending on how closely 
they came to the point of helping nature under nat¬ 
ural laws of life. 

The Mineral Food System of Health is entirely 
a different method. This is not a plan of develop¬ 
ing a new cult of doctors, upon which you are to 
depend for treatments when you get sick. This 
true knowledge is so simple, safe, and sure that 
it is available to you. 

The real truth on any subject is stripped of 
mystery and simple to understand. Error delights 
in mystery and clothes itself in higlibrowism, while 
truth delights in exposing itself and seeks the 
decoration of simplicity. 

This remarkable system, which is winning such 
enthusiastic public endorsement because people 
everywhere are learning how to win their own 
health victories, is the True Health Way and this 
truth is available to you with its blessed relief 
from suffering, disease, and premature death. 

Verily the Truth shall set you free. 


Yours For Health. 


J. Guy Munsell. 


TABLE OF CONTENTS 


In thie Beginning. 1- 14 

Your Wonderful Body. 15-29 

What Are You Made Of. 30-50 

Look at Your Food. 51- 65 

The Healing Power of Nature. 66-90 

The Meaning of Pain... 91-111 

Feeding the Mind.112-131 

Nerves .132-153 

Fevers, Epidemics and Acute Diseases... .154-171 

Children’s Diseases.172-187 

The Water Level of the Body.188-212 

Pus and the Surgeon of Nature.213-234 

The Language of Nature.235-252 

Public Opinion. 253-264 

History of the Mineral Food Movement.. .265-272 

















IN THE BEGINNING 


CHAPTER 1. 

What This Book Is Not 

This book is not an attempt to make a contribu¬ 
tion to science. During the last century such scien¬ 
tists as Huxly, Tyndall, Virchow, Leibig, Valentin, 
Scheussler, Goullon, Moleschott, Walker, Carey, 
Chapman, McCann and others have done their best 
to persuade scientific authorities that all the body 
needs is a chance to heal itself by feeding the body 
those things that are perfectly natural to the body, 
and those scientific contributions have been 
spurned. Some of these noble men have made 
their supreme sacrifice and have passed on, broken¬ 
hearted, unrecognized, and unknown. 

These men have been overwhelmed, trodden 
down, and beaten back in a great sand and dust 
storm of scientific (?) controversy. They were 
not burned at the stake as the world used to do to 
those who ventured to offer a new light that con¬ 
flicted with orthodox, scientific theories. The 
world does not do that way now. They were sim¬ 
ply smothered down and pushed into the back¬ 
ground. 

Briefly told, the story of the great tragedy is 
this: There is nothing so humiliating to scientific 
authorities as to have their sacred theories con¬ 
tradicted. The “Germ Theory” is only another 
method of attempting to explain how diseases get 





IN THE BEGINNING 


into the body from the outside. Ancient physi¬ 
cians said it was the devil. Modern doctors say 
it is “Germs.” The scientists named above proved 
that disease is not due to any outside cause but 
is due to the need of natural elements for cell life. 
Germs may be in the body, but they have no power 
if the cells have what they need. Why are some 
people immune to germs if this is not so? 

The great scientific authorities saw the danger 
to themselves, and they did not want to be con¬ 
vinced of their error, for they feared the loss of 
their power. They have taken great pains to see 
to it that no medical student should ever get a true 
viewpoint on this great health discovery. Our 
medical practitioners are not to blame. They are 
loyal to their Alma Mater. They do as they are 
taught. They have been taught to despise the work 
of these honest original investigators. They are 
conscientious about it. The world must continue 
to live in fear of “germs” until public opinion com¬ 
pels those so-called scientific authorities who sit 
in high places to eat their humble pie and admit 
their error, and the longer they resist the greater 
their shame. 

Therefore, the Mineral Food System of Health 
is not submitted to scientific authorities for criti¬ 
cism. The past has proven how useless that method 
would be. Since scientific authority has rejected, 
scorned, and smothered this great truth in order 
that the scientific face of error may be saved for a 
little while, there is nothing to do but to take this 



MUNSELL’S LECTURES 


7 


message to the great common people who suffer 
and die for the want of this knowledge. Again it 
becomes a case of history repeating itself for the 
common people must prove the error of science. 
It is to be expected that there will be an occasional 
noise as science feels the hurt of its own selfish¬ 
ness. In the meantime, all that the friends and 
advocates of the Mineral Food System of Health 
are attempting to do is to prove the efficiency of 
this System in the great need of human experience. 
If this thing is not true, it will die. If it is true, 
nothing can stop it. 

“Truth crushed to earth will rise again 
While error, wounded, writhes in pain 
And dies amidst her worshippers.” 

—Emerson. 

So much as to what this book is not. 

WHAT THIS BOOK IS 

This book is the humble work of a humble man 
who was sick, near unto death and who had sought 
professional medical help in a perfectly orthodox 
fashion and everywhere had been turned away 
without hope. This man was afflicted with the ter¬ 
rible disease called Diabetes Mellitus, supposed to 
be fatal and incurable. 

This man had a friend in the medical profession, 
who was broad-minded enough to see the merit 
in the losing side of the great battle above de¬ 
scribed. 



8 


IN THE BEGINNING 


This doctor was partially convinced about the 
principles of the body needing these mineral ele¬ 
ments, and this suffering man got his first hint of 
the possibilities of this study from a friendly doc¬ 
tor. Like a drowning man grabbing for a straw, 
the originator of what is now known as the Min¬ 
eral Food System of Health began his study, look¬ 
ing into the works of these noble and true scientific 
men who had been discredited but who really made 
the first contribution to the problem of supplying 
the body with the things that were perfectly nat¬ 
ural to the body. 

The scientists above referred to, who made the 
first contribution to the great problem of feeding 
the cells the mineral elements, must have attempt¬ 
ed to appeal to the medical profession by following 
the lines that had been laid down by long practice 
in medicine. They tried to make the system work 
according to the old fashioned plan of treating 
diseases, and with some success, especially with 
acute diseases. But no enthusiasm or victories 
were ever recorded such as followed the promotion 
of the Mineral Food System of Health. The reason 
for this great success was that the author was the 
first to see that the ancient method of diagnosing 
and naming diseases and then seeking specific 
remedies for those diseases was all wrong. The 
author of the Mineral Food System saw that there 
was a “Language of Nature” which was simply the 
natural method by which the body tells what it' 
needs, and that to call this natural expression of 



MUNSELL’S LECTURES 


9 


a need symptomatology and then classify the symp¬ 
toms by naming diseases was only a round-about 
way of getting nowhere. The author, therefore, 
decided to follow nature and to stop tracking after 
the ancient method. 

If after the symptoms are classified and the dis¬ 
ease is named it cannot be cured by the old methods, 
why not give it up? The author concluded that 
the thing he wanted to know was this: “What does 
my body need?” To know that the name of his 
disease was Diabetes Mellitus did not help one bit 
as an answer to the great question, but when he 
learned to understand nature’s language he knew 
all of the time what his body needed, and he found 
this system was so simple that any one could tell 
all of the time just what he needed, and that he 
never needed to know the name of his disease. 

OUR CLAIMS 

The author claims credit for being the first to 
develop and promote such a system in such a way 
and, therefore, becomes the originator of the Min¬ 
eral Food System of Health, desiring of course, to 
make it plain that he makes no claim to having 
been the discoverer of those wonderful things that 
scientific men during the last century, one after 
another had contributed. The author of these lec¬ 
tures and the originator of what is now known 
as the Mineral Food System of Health realized 
early in his experience with the work that the 
problem of building health the Mineral Food way 



10 


IN THE BEGINNING 


must always be a plan by which each individual 
would take care of himself. It will, therefore, be 
found that in every book or publication of this 
system the language used is so simple as to be 
easy for men and women and children in every de¬ 
gree of learning. This is a work of a common man 
for the common people. 

No apologies are made, therefore, for the lack of 
scientific terms. The hardest thing anyone ever 
attempted to do is to read and live in the field 
of scientific research and at the same time talk 
in the language of the street. It involves a task 
that is trying in every detail, for it becomes neces¬ 
sary to make translations from scientific terms to 
common words. On the one hand the author is 
criticised because he does not use a more techni¬ 
cal terminology, and on the other hand he is criti¬ 
cised by some who claim they have to read with a 
dictionary at hand. 

The effort is constantly made to keep this work 
within the reach of all, and it ought to be so. It 
is right that it should be so, and there isn’t any¬ 
thing that we are trying any harder to do than to 
keep it so. There is no apology to be made, except 
where we fail to make good on that program. 

The Mineral Food System of Health has been 
promoted up to the time of the publishing of this 
book without any other advertising than the good 
will of its patrons. The author has labored dili¬ 
gently to give value received and to help all to 



MUNSELL'S LECTURES 


11 


build their health which is the thing they wanted 
when they purchased this service, and such people 
are not asking for scientific contributions but for 
help in their problems. This is the gist of the 
whole matter when we say that we are not offering 
this book as a scientific contribution, but we are 
seeking to help plain men and women who are 
doing the real work of the world and who are suf¬ 
fering and in distress and want to know the way 
to health. 

Legitimate advertising of a legitimate propo¬ 
sition is always legitimate, but it is with a distinct 
feeling of satisfaction that the author announces 
that up until the time of the publication of this 
book, there has never been a dollar spent to pro¬ 
mote this enterprise by advertising. We had no 
dollars to spend that way. The Mineral Food 
movement has spread by enthusiastic boosting 
from one friend to another and by letters from 
dear ones to distant places, telling of the wonder¬ 
ful victories they have seen and won, urging loved 
ones to prove it out for their own good. 

THE PLAN 

The task of helping suffering people everywhere 
to build their health is a noble task. The plan is 
to teach folks everywhere how to feed their bodies 
the perfectly natural substances needed for health. 
The Language of Nature makes this plain. It is 
so brief and simple that any one can understand 
it and use it. Every beginner in this System re¬ 
ceives first of all this very simple, easy, brief guide. 



12 


IN THE BEGINNING 


The next step in the process is to go more com¬ 
pletely into the knowledge of the Mineral Food 
System, showing the physiology of the minerals in 
the body which becomes a great help in learning 
how to use it. Finally this lecture course explains 
more perfectly the whys and the wherefores of 
the theoretical phase of the Mineral Food System 
of Health. 

The author, during the advancement of this 
work, up until the time of the publication of this 
book has traveled as far as he could go to help our 
members by delivering lectures, bringing to them 
more light upon the problem in that personal way. 

IN THE COURSE OF DEVELOPMENT 

But because of the wonderful results obtained 
this System has spread so far that there are many 
scattered members everywhere that cannot be 
reached with a lecture service, and in the mean¬ 
time so many new points have sprung up where 
the crying need for lecture service is demanded, 
that the author found himself unable to meet the 
demand of this type of service with personal lec¬ 
tures, and hence he has brought together this pub¬ 
lication which is a reproduction of the lectures 
that have been delivered to his membership at these 
points where this work has grown so rapidly. By 
compiling this book of lectures it becomes possible 
to broadcast this service to people everywhere. 

It has also been found that there are many who 
do not wish to take the complete Course of Instruc- 



MUNSELL’S LECTURES 


13 


tion, but who do wish to have these lectures as a 
means of investigation. Anyone who wishes to 
understand the theoretical foundation upon which 
MunselPs Mineral Food System of Health is based, 
in a form where it can be carefully and thought¬ 
fully investigated, can do so by means of this book. 

And, therefore, this book is offered to the public, 
with no obligation on the purchaser to use Mineral 
Food or to purchase any further service. This 
book does not teach anyone how to use Mineral 
Food to build their health. That was not the in¬ 
tention of these Lectures. The regular service of 
instruction conducted by MunselPs Mineral Food 
Company conveys this necessary training. 

This book of Lectures, therefore, must not be ex¬ 
pected to be a guide as to how to use Mineral Food. 
That is a service that is given by the institution 
founded by the author and is available to anyone 
who wishes to buy that service. These Lectures 
contain the theoretical foundation upon which the 
Mineral Food System is based, all of which is so 
necessary for a complete confidence in any such 
system, for before anyone can really have confi¬ 
dence enough to prove this out, he must know 
why it works, and the whys and wherefores are the 
outstanding problems of the lecture course. 

We, therefore, submit this work from the stand¬ 
point of what it is and professes to be. As to the 
criticism to be expected from the standpoint of 
what it is not and does not profess to be, there is 



14 


IN THE BEGINNING 


nothing to be said except we await it with com¬ 
placence and leave it to others to make any 
scientific contributions as may seem best in the 
hope that such efforts may some day meet with a 
more favorable scientific reception than all such 
efforts have received in the past. 


The Mineral Food System is Your Way to Health! 
The Language of Nature Shows You the Way! 


Follow That Way! 



YOUR WONDERFUL BODY 

CHAPTER 2. 

There is a public state of mind to the effect that 
the human body must be “monkeyed with.” This 
public opinion has affected all of us, and it causes 
you to act as though your body is not properly 
made and your organs are not properly ad¬ 
justed. How can the popular monkey-wrench 
methods of changing adjustments and knife and 
scissor practices of violently removing organs 
from the body be otherwise explained? We ex¬ 
ceed all the limits of reason in the way we tinker 
with the human body because of the fear of sick¬ 
ness and death. 

A MECHANICAL MASTERPIECE 

Your body is the most perfect machine that 
has ever been created. There is nothing in nature 
so wonderful. Almost everything man attempts 
to build is patterned after the human body. 

Beautiful cathedrals have been erected with 
magnificent arches by the wonderful skill of man, 
and yet no arch was ever formed that will equal 
the symmetry and perfect fit of the arch in your 
own body where the upper end of the two legs 
and the pelvic bones support the trunk. 

No man has ever been able to make a hinge that 
is as perfect as the human knee. 


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16 


YOUR WONDERFUL BODY 


No universal joint was ever as fine as tlie 
human wrist. 

No girders were ever as grand as the human 
ribs. 

No filters were ever made that are as splendid 
as the human kidneys. 

No valves were ever manufactured that will 
equal the valves of the heart. 

No telegraph or telephone system was ever con¬ 
structed that could be compared with the nervous 
system of the human body. 

No piano was ever built as fine and perfect as 
the fibre instrument nature built in your own ear, 
and yet man has done wonderful things in piano 
building. This perfect little miniature piano 
contains about three thousand double fibres or 
strings, and the longest cord is one-fifteenth of an 
inch, while the shortest is about one five-hun¬ 
dredths of an inch. The constant struggle of 
man is to build a parlor grand piano that is small 
enough to fit the parlor of an average home. The 
baby grand is the best that it has ever been pos¬ 
sible to make, and yet it is not quite so satisfac¬ 
tory as the larger parlor grand which is perhaps 
a little bit less than one foot longer. 

We have wonderful kodaks and cameras, but 
did you ever see a camera that was self-focusing, 
self-loading, self-developing, perfectly working 
automatic drop shutter, could take millions of 



MUNSELL’S LECTURES 


17 


pictures every day, was self-cleansing, took all 
pictures in colors and enlarged them to life size, 
and all of this automatically? The human eye is 
more wonderful than any picture machine man 
ever made. It is a moving picture machine, at that. 
And in the optical darkroom of the human eye 
you will find the only jet black membrane in 
the entire body. No man has ever created any¬ 
thing half so wonderful as your eye. 

No violin was ever built that will equal the 
tone possibilities of the human voice. 

The trumpet and the harp are all counterfeits 
of the human body, but are so imperfect, no mat¬ 
ter how grand, as to become the despair of the 
manufacturer. 

Wonderful things have been done in the attempt 
to make a pump of perfect efficiency, but the hu¬ 
man heart stands at the apex of all pumps ever 
created. The heart is six inches in length, four 
inches in diameter, and throws out about eight 
tons of blood under pressure every day. And 
wonderful though the works of man may some¬ 
times seem to 'be, no man has ever yet been able 
to build a pump that will equal the performance 
and efficiency of this wonderful organ which we 
call the human heart. 

It is wonderful to view the waterworks sys¬ 
tems of our large cities with their immense 
pumps and main pipes all skillfully figured out 
by mechanical engineers, but no water works sys- 



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YOUR WONDERFUL BODY 


tern in the world ever will be equal to the cir¬ 
culation of the blood in your own wonderful body. 

The lungs contain one gallon of air. We 
breathe twelve hundred breaths, and inhale twelve 
hundred gallons of air per hour, or twenty-eight 
thousand gallons each day, and the total surface 
of the air cells in the lungs exceeds twenty thous¬ 
and square inches, equal to the area of a room 
twelve feet square, and nothing like it in effi¬ 
ciency has ever been invented by man. 

Each square inch of the skin surface of the 
body contains thirty-five hundred sweat tubes, and 
there never was a radiator manufactured in the 
world that will equal the efficiency of the respira¬ 
tory pores of the body. Each pore has a little 
drain tile about one-fourth of an inch in length 
and if stretched out these tiles would measure 
nearly thirty miles in length. 

We have heating plants that run on a thermo¬ 
stat, and a temperature of about seventy degrees 
is maintained throughout the entire building, but 
nothing has ever been made that will equal the 
human body’s automatic process of keeping the 
body at an even temperature of about ninety-eight 
degrees whether you are in India at 130 degrees 
above zero, or in the arctic regions at 120 degrees 
below zero, or whether you are at work or asleep. 

Your own body is the mechanical climax of the 
universe, and at no point is that climax more 
complete than in the fact that under the laws of 



MUNSELL’S LECTURES 


19 


nature your own body has the sacred right to re¬ 
produce itself in the most holy precincts of divine 
law, by a process so wonderful, so full of mystery 
that the wisest of men who' know the most about 
it confess that they know nothing at all. An 
ancient sage viewing the wonders of the human 
body broke out with, “Unhappy man, thou bearest 
a god within thee and knoweth it not.” 

At the topmost round of secret mystery there 
rests the human brain—the holy of holies of the 
infinite mind. No one knows anything about it. 
You belong to the only class of animals that has 
the power of intelligence and judgment. You 
are, therefore, almost divine. 

The mysteries of the infinite mind were re¬ 
vealed to the limit of finite capacity of under¬ 
standing when the power of speech was bestowed 
upon you. And then this blessed God-given fac¬ 
ulty is used by all of us to make each other be¬ 
lieve that this human body, so wonderfully made 
and so perfectly adjusted, has to be “monkeyed 
with”—maltreated with unnatural devices, drugged, 
poisoned, and carved upon, in the attempt to im¬ 
prove upon God’s great masterpiece by removing 
its sacred parts. And if a part or organ can be 
removed without producing instant death we pa¬ 
rade the wonderful achievement of the skilled 
mechanic as a scientific triumph. 

By what fine art of reason can we sustain the 
ridiculous conclusion that it is within man’s 
limited powers to improve the greatest masterpiece 



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YOUR WONDERFUL BODY 


of the “Master Mechanic?’ of the universe? That 
idea cannot be sustained until some man can come 
forward and show that he has made with his own 
hands, and perfected by his own knowledge, a 
human body more perfectly organized and more 
perfectly adjusted than has ever been made by 
the Universal Artist. 

WHY MONKEY WITH THE ADJUSTMENTS? 

Did you ever see a piece of machinery that came 
from the factory in perfect adjustment, made to 
work, and then see some monkey-wrench expert 
muss up the adjustments and afterwards complain 
because it won’t work as it should? Then notice 
what we are doing to the human body. It came 
from the most perfect factory ever organized in 
the universe. The adjustments were perfectly 
made in its creation, but if the bowels do not 
move every day we monkey-wrench the adjust¬ 
ments with an unnatural dose of high power 
dynamite, in the belief that something awful 
is the matter with the machine, and that throws 
the bowels, stomach, liver, kidneys and the entire 
body out of adjustment so another poisonous 
dope seems to be needed. You beg for dope to 
stop the headache and then the nerves and the 
heart are thrown out of adjustment, and every 
unnatural thing that is done to the human body 
is to be compared with the monkey-wrench ex¬ 
pert. He wonders why the machine won’t work 
and you wonder why you are so sick after you 
have done so many unnatural things to yourself 



MUNSELL’S LECTURES 


21 


trying to improve upon nature’s perfect adjust¬ 
ments. 

No greater mistake ever seized the conscious¬ 
ness of the race than that state of mind which 
keeps the world thinking that the body isn’t made 
right, and that it doesn’t work right unless it is 
“monkeyed with” all of the time. One of the 
chief reasons why the world is sick is that the 
world’s fingers seem to itch to grab the monkey- 
wrench and to go to work “monkeying with” the 
adjustments on the most wonderful piece of ma¬ 
chinery ever manufactured in the universe, a 
machine that is perfectly made and perfectly ad¬ 
justed and only needs to be properly fed and 
washed and then “let alone ” 

OBSERVE NATURE’S LAWS 

Here is a natural law that you should learn and 
remember: Never put anything into the body 
except that which is natural to the body; never 
give the body anything except food, air and water. 
That is all the body needs, everything else is 
foreign to the body. No matter what the effect 
may be it is an evil effect, if it is produced by 
unnatural methods even though it may seem to 
give temporary relief. If you are tampering with 
nature you are fooling with the adjustments, and 
anything that is done to maladjust the body is an 
interference with the health conditions of the 
body. 



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YOUR WONDERFUL BODY 


HAVE FAITH IN YOUR WONDERFUL BODY 

The first big thing to learn is to believe in your 
own body; to believe that the laws of nature are 
such that it is natural for it to do the right 
thing; to learn how to feed the body what it 
asks for and then do nothing else except to wash 
it and keep it clean, and, for the sake of your life 
and your own well being learn how to “let it 
alone ” If any other person wants to “monkey 
with” the adjustments of your wonderful body 
fight for your body as you would fight for your 
life. 

PERFECT HEALTH 

What is perfect health? That fine perfectly 
natural condition is simply perfect life. How is 
perfect life maintained? That is the next ques¬ 
tion for discussion. 

There is no life to be found anywhere in nature 
except in the cell. Life is not in the brain, the 
lungs, the heart, the stomach, or in any organ 
or part of the body, but life is in every part of 
the body. Billions upon billions of cells all 
brought together and related so that every cell 
is in constant possible communication with every 
other cell, that is health and that is life, and that 
is the personality that makes you and makes me. 

But the power of life, the secret of life, the 
function of life, the vibration of life, the mystery 
of life, every attribute of life is confined to that 



MUNSELL’S LECTURES 


23 


infinitely, infinitesimal entity which we call the 
cell. The head cells, the hair cells, the skin cells, 
the bone cells, the heart cells, the brain cells, the 
nerve cells, all of the cells from the crown of the 
head to the soles of the feet, have their life vibra¬ 
tion, their power of function. Every cell is im¬ 
portant to every other cell, and every cell in the 
body lives and moves and has its being in unison 
with all of the cells. If every cell is living exact¬ 
ly right the whole body will be well and healthful 
and beautiful to behold. If one organ or part 
of the body is diseased, then the entire body is 
at least a little bit out of tune. Do not say there 
is nothing the matter with you except so and so. 
If so and so is the matter with you, then some¬ 
thing is the matter with you all over your body, 
for every cell in your body is related to every 
other cell. 

Life as a process is a mystery, and it may be 
that no human mind will ever be able to under¬ 
stand that mystery. But we will not concern our¬ 
selves as to the mystery, we will confine our 
thoughts to those things that we are able to know 
about life. The thing that we know is this: It 
is a chemical vibration, or precipitation; it is a 
chemical process so far as all of the material 
elements are concerned that enter into this secret 
or mystery of life. 

ALL YOU NEED 

We know that this chemical process is depend¬ 
ent upon three essential elements: First, there 




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YOUR WONDERFUL BODY 


must be oxygen, or air; secondly, there must be 
water; and thirdly, there must be food—any and 
all kinds of wholesome food material. These 
things are the only things that the cells ever need 
—air, water and food. The cells never need a 
poison; they never need a drug; they will not 
accept any unnatural or foreign substance, but if 
given the things which are natural to them, such 
as air, water and food, the cells will then per¬ 
form their function and perfect life will result; 
and if the life is perfect, then health will be 
perfect. There is no disease known that cannot 
be traced down to the deficiency of the necessary 
natural elements needed for life in the cells. Not 
a single disease falls outside of the possibility of 
such classification. 

We do not need to worry about the air and 
water, for there is plenty of both. The whole 
health question is the food question. What is the 
matter with your food? There is plenty of it; 
the table groans with the load. No one starves 
for the want of food. The fact is we eat too 
much food. There is plenty of food but it is de¬ 
mineralized, unnatural food. The entire health 
question is a food question because it is impos¬ 
sible for the human body to even get this am* and 
water back to the cells of the body unless the food 
is right. 

The food must supply the dust or the mineral 
base upon which these vibrations take place. If 
the mineral base is missing the connection is 



MUNSELL’S LECTURES 


25 


broken and the spark fails to reach the negative 
pole. The albumens, starches, fats, calories and 
all of the rest of the popular fads and fancies 
about food are only the negative poles, or the 
method by which nature keeps up the contact 
through organic matter back to mother earth or 
back to the ultimate material substance. “Dust 
thou art” and if that dust is not present in suffi¬ 
cient quantities, or in the right form, then the 
foundation upon which the vibrations of life must 
depend crumbles away and life is interfered with, 
and how can there be health? 

And even though the vibrations of life may con¬ 
tinue to go on after a fashion the automatic pro¬ 
cesses are hindered and the forces of life slow 
down until the body becomes inefficient and is 
racked with pain or whatever the symptoms may 
be. 

THE NATURAL WAY 

But these minerals must come into the body 
in the form of food. There is nothing more 
pathetic in everyday life than the efforts that 
are being made by some people to respond to the 
popular belief that we need minerals. Barrels of 
iron are being fed, but not in the proper form. 
It is the function of plants to take the dust of 
the earth and by means of plant life transform 
these crude or concentrated minerals into the 
cell structure of plant life, and then the vegetables 
become food for the animal kingdom. And if 
the vegetables were perfectly natural, or were 



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taken in a perfectly natural way, they would 
contain the minerals that man needs for perfect 
life. Any method, therefore, of taking any of the 
minerals into the body to supply the mineral need 
must be done skillfully. The minerals must be in 
perfect food form, and this means that nature’s 
processes must not be changed, but must be as 
perfectly duplicated as possible. 

You read on the sign, “Have you had your 
iron today?” And you are asked to eat raisins 
and there is not a natural raisin on the market 
for you to eat. Nature’s processes with raisins 
have been changed to make more money for the 
raisin men. The raisins are big and sweet, and 
keep well and look nice and pack fine, but the 
iron is not just right in these unnatural raisins. 

The chemist may insist that the iron is there. 
But if that iron is not properly attenuated, or 
if that iron is not built into the cell structure 
of the raisin in a perfectly natural way, then that 
iron, even though it is present, will pass into 
your body and pass out again without really 
touching the life processes or cell vibrations of 
the body. Therefore, it is not altogether the 
amount of minerals in your food that is affecting 
your health. The trouble is that the mineral ele¬ 
ment is often useless because the food is so artifi¬ 
cial, for commercial reasons, that you can not use 
the mineral in that unnatural form. 

Nature cannot be successfully changed. Nature 
must either be left alone or else we must pay the 



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27 


price as a recompense and duplicate nature as 
perfectly as possible. When we make Mineral 
Food we duplicate nature and make an iron that 
will successfully feed your cells, and you can 
prove it. 


CONCLUSION 

You want to learn right now how to promote 
life in the cell. You see from what you have just 
read that health is dependent upon perfect life 
processes in the cell. It is your desire to be 
efficient, comfortable and able to maintain your 
place in the world as only a healthy person can 
do. 

The first thing to do is to get this new view¬ 
point. Begin right now looking at your body 
from a different standpoint. Free yourself from 
the notion that has been a part of your thought 
since your earliest recollections to the effect that 
your body needs fixing. Remember your body is 
perfectly constructed and is absolutely automatic 
and it never needs to be “monkeyed with.” If it is 
out of order you cannot fix it, for it must fix 
itself, and it will if you will only learn how to 
give it what it needs. The only things the body 
ever needs are air, water and food. A sick body 
is a body that is starving for mineral elements that 
the food fails to supply, even though the stomach 
may be full of other things upon which the body 
is already overstocked. 




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Settle forever the fundamental program an¬ 
nounced above to the effect that from this time 
on nothing is to ever enter your body except that 
which is natural to your body. No drugs, stimu¬ 
lants, tonics, laxatives, painkillers, regulators, 
knives, scissors, or any other violent or unnatural 
methods should ever again maltreat or maladjust 
this marvelous structure placed within your con¬ 
trol and dependent upon you for its care. 

You make no mistake if you will learn to have 
confidence in nature. What is it your body 
needs? It needs to be fed. Natural food is the 
food the body needs, but you cannot get that 
food in a natural form. Your food is deminer¬ 
alized by all of the processes that civilization has 
demanded. Therefore, it becomes your solemn 
duty to learn how to recompense nature by sup¬ 
plying those minerals that have been taken out 
of your food by civilization. 

If some of these principles are not clear to you, 
as yet, then read on. Every Lecture following this 
opening subject of “Your Wonderful Body” is a 
more complete explanation of principles only hint¬ 
ed at in the opening chapter. 

Mineral Food is your great hope. This is why 
your friends speak to you with such enthusiasm 
and tell you of the wonderful victories that are 
everywhere being obtained by the use of Mineral 
Food. It sounds too good to be true, but the 
only honest answer that can be made is to say 



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that Munsell’s Mineral Pood System of Health 
proves itself to any and all who will faithfully 
test it out. The great health hope of the world 
is realized. The fundamental cause of disease has 
been traced down. Munsell’s Mineral Pood Sys¬ 
tem works, and therefore, it is true, and you can 
prove it for yourself. 


The Mineral Food System is Your Way to Health! 
The Language of Nature Shows You the Way! 


Follow That Way! 




WHAT ARE YOU MADE OF? 


CHAPTER 3. 

You have a wonderful body made in a wonderful 
way. It automatically takes care of itself under 
natural laws that are wonderfully efficient. It is 
adjusted so perfectly that all you need to do is to 
let it alone. Your big duty in order to keep your 
wonderful body in perfect working order is to see 
that every cell is perfectly fed. You have a per¬ 
fectly wonderful system given to you by nature for 
taking care of your food, and you have a wonder¬ 
ful bloodstream and splendid organs of circulation 
by which your food is . carried out to every cell 
of your body. All that is necessary for you to do 
is to see that the cells of your body have a fair 
and square chance to get what they need. When 
that is done they will be well and strong. 

If you are sick, there isn’t anything that can 
be done by any system of healing or by the knowl¬ 
edge and skill of any man or set of men, that will 
come anywhere near working for the restoration 
of your health in any such wonderful way as will 
these perfect laws of life that are in actual adjust¬ 
ment within your own wonderful body, waiting to 
be used as soon as you learn how to supply the 
tools they need to do the work of making you well 
and strong. 

In order that you may understand all of these 
principles, we are going to describe “What You 


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31 


Are Made Of,” and tell what all of these substances 
really do in your body. This is called the physio¬ 
logical function of the substances that make up 
your body. This will make it more clear to you 
why the Mineral Food System of Health has done 
such wonderful things in building health, and why 
it is perfectly safe for you to place your supreme 
confidence in this perfectly natural System of 
Health in order to obtain the same fine results 
others are getting this way. 

To begin with, nearly seventy per cent of your 
body by weight is water. If a human body is 
burned up or cremated the organic substances 
and water pass off in vapors, smoke and gas, 
and when the body is burned, there is at last a resi¬ 
due which defies the power of heat or flame. This 
is the enduring substance of the body, and we call 
this the ash. This is what you are made of. 

The enduring things are always the real things 
in the universe. Pleasures that are enduring are 
the real pleasures. The fleeting pleasures of life 
readily pass away and do not leave behind the 
gleam of satisfaction which life demands. But the 
enduring pleasures, the pleasures which remain, 
the pleasures that abide, the pleasures that stand 
the strain of life are the real pleasures. The wis¬ 
dom of life consists in selecting those things that 
endure. We do not believe in temporary building. 
We build to acquire something that is abiding. We 
crave a business which will endure the test of time 
and the strain of business life. We have learned 




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to recognize that this feature of endurement is the 
test of real worth, and the principle is true right 
here in the Mineral Food System of Health. 

The ash remains when all of the other substances 
have passed away. It is the enduring substance 
and it is the real substance out of which you are 
made. It is the dust which is spoken of in the 
Holy Writ, and you are made of the dust of the 
earth. There is no more scientific statement in all 
scientific literature than the statement that is 
found in the Holy Writ, “Dust thou art.” When 
this ash is chemically described we find that the 
body is made of certain minerals which are to be 
found in the earth, and the dust out of which you 
#re made are composed of those minerals which 
Jiave been classified so that we have twelve names 
to describe them, and each one of these minerals 
has a life function. There may be some other 
^minerals in the body which have no life function 
and are not important so far as the health is con¬ 
cerned, but there are twelve minerals in your body 
upon which your life depends. 


THESE ARE THE THINGS YOU ARE MADE OF 

We have given to these minerals the following 
names: Lime Fluoride, Lime Phosphate, Lime 
Sulphate, Iron Phosphate, Potassium Chloride, 
Potassium Phosphate, Potassium Sulphate, Mag¬ 
nesium Phosphate, Sodium Chloride, Sodium 
Phosphate, Sodium Sulphate and Silica, and these 



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33 


are the things that you are made of. It is upon 
these mineral that your health and life depend, 
and each one does a certain work in your body that 
must be done. When you understand what that 
work is, you will begin to understand why the 
Mineral Food System of Health is true. 

THE FIRST MINERAL—LIME FLUORIDE 

The bones form the framework of your body, 
which the Master Mechanic of the universe so wise¬ 
ly provided to give your body shape and strength. 
The outside portion of every bone in your body is 
covered with a thin, hard, smooth surface called 
periosteum, which you have observed on the bones 
of other animals. It is very similar to the outside 
covering of your teeth which is called the enamel. 
Lime Fluoride is the mineral that builds the enamel 
of the teeth and the outside surface of all bone 
structure, and it is to this surface that the muscles 
of the body are attached. You cannot enjoy good 
strong bone and muscle attachment unless this 
smooth covering is made by this mineral. When¬ 
ever there is a deficiency in this mineral, there 
will be bone diseases and bone abscesses, and that 
is often the way tubercular infection of the bone 
begins. 

But this mineral of Lime Fluoride has another 
important function in your body. The muscles 
of your body would be nothing but a helpless mass 
of protoplasm if they were not formed and sup¬ 
ported in such a way as to provide for them the 



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WHAT ARE YOU MADE OF 


power to contract, and this could not be done ex¬ 
cept for these little elastic fibres which are really 
small, fine, thin strips of rubber, which interlace 
the muscles in all directions and gives to them the 
power to contract. Your muscles would be like 
a jelly fish if it were not for these elastic fibres, 
and Lime Fluoride is the mineral that controls 
the chemical processes of life, which builds these 
fibres and keeps them working. 

When this mineral becomes deficient these 
fibres cannot be strong. They become flabby and 
why shouldn’t you have piles, varicose veins, rup¬ 
ture, sagging muscles on your arms or legs, flabby 
appendix, flabby bowels causing constipation, 
flabby stomach causing indigestion, flabby gums 
around the teeth, flabby face muscles causing it to 
sag and hang loose, disfiguring the face and giving 
premature lines of old age, or flabby heart, or 
flabby valves in the heart so that the heart does 
not function as it should. There is a widespread 
need for this mineral everywhere. It is one of 
the chief needs in almost every person’s body for 
there are flabby muscles everywhere. 

And what sense can there be in performing an 
operation for such conditions of mineral starvation? 
Why should we cut the appendix out and throw it 
away? That will not restore this mineral to the 
body nor will it overcome the other flabby condi¬ 
tions extending all over the body. And why should 
we cut off a pile or cut open a vein and take out a 
slice and then sew it up again? Is it not self- 



MUNSELL’S LECTURES 


35 


evident that all of the cruel operations that are 
being performed to overcome sagging and flabby 
conditions of the body are only the beginning of 
that worse condition that finally comes about? 
The hospital records are full of cases where minor 
operations for sagging and flabby conditions were 
only the beginning of more serious trouble. When 
the heart becomes so flabby that it can not stand 
the strain, and no more operations can be per¬ 
formed, then you may be told that there is noth¬ 
ing for you to do but arrange your affairs to die, 
and to be as complacent and contented about it as 
possible. 

THE SECOND MINERAL—LIME PHOSPHATE 

Lime Phosphate is the base of your bloodstream. 
The blood plasm of the body is dependent upon 
this mineral. You cannot get the food back to 
your cells to feed them unless the food comes under 
the control of this mineral. Chemical authorities 
know that Lime Phosphate has an affinity for 
albumen. The albumen as soon as it enters your 
bloodstream must come under the control of this 
mineral, or it would become inert and useless and 
would pass away or be discharged by some organ 
of the body to prevent the bloodstream from being 
contaminated by decaying albumenous substances. 

This mineral is the one that builds the interior 
part of your bone. It is the soft inner bone sub¬ 
stance mineral. 




WHAT ARE YOU MADE OF 


This mineral is one of the most essential of all 
to life in the body. No cell can live without food 
and no food can reach the cell without this mineral 
element. No bone can be properly supported with¬ 
out this mineral, and therefore, a deficiency of this 
mineral causes all sorts of trouble. 

The sex function depends upon this mineral, and 
when a deficiency arises, then abnormal sex 
thoughts and unnatural sex acts are bound to take 
place. 

One of the most pitiful things that ever happens 
in life is the young life that is ruined by abnormal 
sex conditions. There are boys and girls in school 
today who ought to be thinking about their studies 
and who would like to do it, but whose thoughts 
are tormented by unnatural and uncontrollable 
sex ideas. Whenever this mineral is deficient be¬ 
cause they go to the table three times a day and 
fail to receive what they need, a disturbance arises 
in the bloodstream all over the body for the want 
of this mineral and brings about unnatural sex 
thoughts and acts. There are girls and boys who 
have been condemned by the cruel public opinion 
of society with the complacent remark that they 
had the devil in them, because they cannot be de¬ 
pended upon to live true to the high ideals of 
society with regard to their sex nature. And yet 
if society only knew it, the evil food habits are 
bringing these things about. 

There are men and women today who are able 
to testify that they themselves had been tormented 



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37 


in this way and have found that these things come 
under a very natural control by the use of Mineral 
Food, so that they gradually find themselves over¬ 
coming the tendencies which they supposed were 
a part of their nature. They thought it was nat¬ 
ural to be tormented by weaknesses of which they 
were ashamed, but as they have built up their 
health they find themselves happily using their 
strength to a better advantage. 

One of the strongest evidences of this thing 
that has come within the knowledge of man is to 
observe the occasional manifestations of a degen¬ 
erate sex nature in a dog. The dog eats the food 
from his master’s table. He lives a more unnat¬ 
ural life than any other animal in the world except 
man, and this is because he has become a more in¬ 
timate companion of man than any other animal 
in nature. And because of eating this unnatural 
food from his master’s table, it has been noticed 
that sometimes dogs after several generations of 
this unnatural life come to the condition where 
their sex habits are so obnoxious that they have 
to be done away with, and it is impossible to find 
any other animal in nature that has gone away 
from his sex nature and has violated the natural 
laws of his being along the line of reproduction as 
has the human family and the dog. These two, 
living and eating the most unnatural food of all 
animals have had more trouble with this one func¬ 
tion than any other animal known to man. 



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THE THIRD MINERAL—LIME SULPHATE 

Lime Sulphate is the mineral that nature uses 
to wash and cleanse the inner parts of the body. 
Back in the cells and in the interstices or the middle 
spaces between the cells this mineral does its work. 
It is the washerwoman or the scrub lady of the 
body. This is because it has a natural chemical 
affinity for those waste matters commonly called 
mucous or pus, and you can tell by the signs given 
in the Language of Nature just when this mineral 
is needed in your body. This is true of all other 
minerals of the body. 

THE FOURTH MINERAL—IRON PHOSPHATE 

Iron Phosphate is the mineral that carries the 
oxygen from the lungs out to the cells. You must 
have oxygen, for no cell can live unless the spark 
of life is touched off by pure, sweet, clean oxygen 
which is the air you breathe. And although your 
lungs are full of air it will do you no good back 
in the cells of life unless this mineral is in the 
bloodstream in just the right way to do this work. 
Iron Phosphate is known to have a chemical 
affinity for oxygen, and nature has resorted to 
this chemical function to carry on this process of 
life. You must have iron or you will die, for you 
cannot get the oxygen that your cells need to live 
without the iron. 

THE FIFTH MINERAL—POTASSIUM CHLORIDE 

Your cells must get albumen in the final form 
of fibrin before it can be used in promoting the 



MUNSELL’S LECTURES 


39 


life of the cell, and Potassium Chloride has the 
chemical power to do the work of changing the 
albumen to fibrin. If this mineral becomes defi¬ 
cient, then the fibrin must pass out. If it comes 
out one way you say catarrh, If it comes out an¬ 
other way you say typhoid fever. If it comes out 
another way it is croup. If it comes out another 
way it is scarlet fever. This does not begin to 
touch upon the many diseases that are due to the 
fact that the fibrin in the body has lost the min¬ 
eral that controls it and has become inert and use¬ 
less and, therefore, it is waste matter and must be 
discharged or it will poison the bloodstream and 
cause death. Under the splendid laws of healing 
in your body, the natural method of your body is 
to get rid of this fibrin, and these various ways of 
causing it to pass out have been seized upon by 
men who have amused themselves by naming dis¬ 
eases, and it is all the same thing—waste fibrin 
which must be discharged under the laws of nature 
by your body which is perfectly automatic and 
will take care of itself, if you will only give your 
cells what they must have to work with. 

THE SIXTH MINERAL—POTASSIUM PHOSPHATE 

The most wonderful part of your body is the 
nervous system. You would be a perfectly help¬ 
less creature if your fingers were not related to 
your toes in such a way that when your toe itched 
you could use your finger to scratch it. This is a 
crude and homely illustration of how complete- 



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WHAT ARE YOU MADE OF 


ly your body must be brought into co-ordination, 
and every organ and part of the body must be re¬ 
lated to every other part of your body. 

You would not begin to have any such thing 
as a nervous system without this mineral for this 
is the one that builds the gray matter cells of your 
body, and in the gray matter cells you have stored 
up judgment, and all of the things you do in life 
depend upon these cells. You would not only be 
a miserable creature but a perfectly helpless crea¬ 
ture. This is one of the most important of all of 
the twelve minerals of the body. In the lecture 
on nerves we will more completely discuss this 
mineral, but all of these nervous diseases and any 
other diseases that are dependent upon this min¬ 
eral are perfectly explained and thoroughly un¬ 
derstood, when you more completely grasp the 
fullness of this System. 

THE SEVENTH MINERAL—POTASSIUM 
SULPHATE 

This mineral lubricates the body by reason of 
the fact that it is the mineral which under the laws 
of nature has the power to unite with other sub¬ 
stances in the body and manufacture oil. You can¬ 
not eat olive oil or butter and get an oil that will 
lubricate your body. You cannot take out of any 
other human body the oil that is there and use 
that to lubricate your body. There is only one 
way that your body can be lubricated and that is 
to manufacture its own oil, and this is the mineral 



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41 


that does it, for it has a chemical property that 
brings together the substances necessary to manu¬ 
facture the oil your body requires. 

The pores of your skin are dependent upon this 
lubricating oil, and many of the diseases that are 
most disastrous to life hang around the malfunc¬ 
tioning of the pores of the skin, so that the waste 
matter cannot pass out, and so that the tempera¬ 
ture of the body is not properly regulated by the 
pores of the skin. This is why we have learned 
to resort to various methods of causing the body 
to sweat when we get sick. 

THE EIGHTH MINERAL—MAGNESIUM 
PHOSPHATE 

There are two departments of the nervous sys¬ 
tem, the gray matter and the white fibre cells. The 
white fibres are made by Magnesium Phosphate 
and must have this mineral in order to live and 
do their work and toil and labor for you. If they 
are properly supplied, they will never torment you, 
will do their work gladly and never go on a strike. 

The white fibres of the body when they go wrong, 
cause spasms and convulsions, and that terrible 
disease called Tetanus or lock jaw comes within 
this field and every disorder such as St. Vitus 
Dance or Palsy or Writers’ Cramp or uncontrol¬ 
lable hiccoughs and many other conditions that 
will be perfectly described in the system we teach, 
all come within the range of this mineral which 



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WHAT ARE YOU MADE OF 


builds and maintains the white nerve fibres in such 
a way that they can do their work only if they are 
properly provided with their necessary food, and 
they cannot do their work if they are not properly 
fed. 

THE NINTH MINERAL—SODIUM CHLORIDE 

We said a little while ago that seventy per cent 
of the body by weight is water. Therefore, water is 
tremendously important. You can always get 
plenty of water to drink, but your bloodstream 
and cells cannot take it up, unless the mineral that 
controls the water is properly distributed in your 
body. As shown above you cannot get air back 
to the cells unless you have iron in the bloodstream. 
There are oceans of air all around you and the 
lungs may be full, but your blood must carry air or 
you will die. You cannot have the water that your 
body needs clear out in all of the cells of your body, 
even though you may lie in the bathtub or drown 
yourself in the oceans of water that are available, 
unless nature’s way of distributing this water is 
complied with. There is only one way and that is 
a chemical way. 

Sodium Chloride is the mineral that has a chemi¬ 
cal affinity for water and carries it all over the 
body in accordance with the laws of nature. If 
this mineral is properly distributed about the body, 
the water will reach the cells just as it is required. 
If it is not there, then the water content in the 
body will be disturbed. This is a perfectly scien- 



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43 


tific explanation of that condition known as 
Dropsy, which is the final and fatal form of many 
fatal diseases. Hay Fever is a disturbance of the 
water content of the body. A running, watery 
cold is the beginning of many distressing condi¬ 
tions. When the water runs out of the nose or the 
eyes or any other organ in an unnatural way, it 
does not mean that there is too much water in 
the body. There may not be enough water in the 
body and still water may be discharged. But it 
does mean that the water that is in the body is 
not under the control of its proper mineral and, 
therefore, it has to be discharged or it will flood 
some parts and become a damage instead of a help. 
This mineral of Sodium Chloride is one of the 
vital minerals to life processes. There are three 
substances vital to the life of every cell: air, water 
and food. No. 4 mineral is vital to the life because 
it takes care of the air. No. 9 mineral is vital to 
life because it takes care of the water. No 2 min¬ 
eral is vital to life because it takes care of the food. 

THE TENTH MINERAL—SODIUM PHOSPHATE 

This is the mineral that takes care of the acids 
of the body. The body must have acid for many 
chemical vibrations of life in the cells take place 
in a medium of this alkali acting upon natural 
acids in the body. Whenever this mineral is de¬ 
ficient in the body, the acid content becomes a dis¬ 
turbing element because it is not under the control 
of this alkali. Acid stomach, heartburn and a 
long list of many acid diseases arise. Rheumatism 



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WHAT ARE YOU MADE OF 


and arthritis are among the most painful, but 
there are many minor ailments which only become 
the beginning of more serious troubles, all of which 
arise because this mineral is deficient. This will 
be more completely explained in our Course of 
Instruction. 

THE ELEVENTH MINERAL—SODIUM SULPHATE 

This is the mineral that does the work of dis¬ 
charging any surplus water there may be in the 
body, as this surplus water would become a dis¬ 
turbing element. The water level in the body must 
be perfectly maintained. It is automatically ad¬ 
justed if the minerals are there in their proper 
form. Sodium Chloride distributes the water of 
the body, but Sodium Sulphate carries out the sur¬ 
plus and eliminates too much water. It is not, 
therefore, a mineral that is very likely to be in¬ 
volved in a case of Dropsy for that is not too much 
water, but is a case where the water is not properly 
distributed. The function of this mineral is to 
automatically adjust the water level. 

THE TWELFTH MINERAL—SILICA 

There is hardly any other mineral in the body 
about which there can be more interest than this 
one. This mineral is in all nature, and it is pre¬ 
eminently important wherever it is found. 

In all forms of plant life there is universal sili- 
cation. The bark on the tree, the fine sharp point- 



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45 


ed bearded side of every blade of grass, every leaf 
pf corn, and every stalk of wheat, on every single 
form of vegetable life, you will find on the outside 
portion a structure that is made by Silica. 

And the same thing is true in all of the animal 
kingdom. The feathers on the bird are made of 
Silica. The scales on the fish are made of Silica, 
the hair on the whole animal creation is made of 
Silica. There isn’t any form of life, either vege¬ 
table or animal, but that presents a great over¬ 
whelming example of silication. 

The internal parts of your body are all made up 
around a fine, thin stream of substance that we 
call connective tissue. It is so thin, that it is trans¬ 
parent. Every one of the infinitesimal multitudes 
of cells in your body are held in place and made 
upon a thin fine skeleton. Not a bone skeleton, 
but a connective tissue skeleton, and all of this 
is under the control of Silica. 

There is much suffering in the world due to im¬ 
proper silication, and if you do not get this Silica 
there is bound to be disorder. The Language of 
Nature in our Course of Instruction becomes a 
complete and perfect guide so that anyone can 
know any time he wants to know just when he 
needs Silica. And yet, it wull be a mistake for any¬ 
one to jump at the conclusion that you can get 
Silica in any of its crude or concentrated forms 
on the market and supply the cells in your body. 
In the great scheme of creation, under the all-wise 



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infinite mind of the Universal Master Mechanic, 
you were made in such a way that you must get 
this dust in a food form. You cannot chew a nail 
and get iron. You cannot go and buy powdered 
iron at a drug store and supply the cells of your 
body with the iron that you need, for that is not 
the natural way and it is not a natural form. 

The Master Mechanic of the Universe made 
you in such a way that you are dependent upon the 
natural vegetables for your food. The vegetable 
kingdom has the power to reach down into the 
ground and to bring the minerals and the water 
together in the cells of vegetable life in such a 
way that the minerals are to be taken over into 
organic forms of life, and you were supposed to 
get your food that way. When the minerals 
were taken into the body in that form they were 
perfectly arranged by natural laws in such a way 
that they were highly attenuated or stretched out 
and made to become a part of other substances to 
match your power of digestion, and you must either 
get it that way or you must recompense nature 
the Mineral Food way. I did not make that law 
and you cannot amend it. There is only one thing 
that either of us can do and that is to follow na¬ 
ture’s law. 

NATURE’S WAY IS DUPLICATED 

It has become the will of civilized society to 
tamper with the food of the human race and to 
make it unnatural. The Mineral Food System 



MUNSELL’S LECTURES 


47 


of Health is efficient in the restoration of health 
and the building up of health because we have 
devised a system by which anyone may tell all of 
the time through the Language of Nature just what 
he needs. We have worked out a system in such a 
way that we have perfectly duplicated nature’s 
methods. 

Nature’s way of placing these minerals into all 
of the food we eat has been duplicated, and since 
the human race has violated nature and gone away 
from the natural method and spoiled the food, it 
has then become necessary for you to learn how to 
recompense nature for the benefit of your body. 
This is an explanation of the essential feature of 
the Mineral Food System of Health, and this is 
why we succeed. All of the diseases that are tor¬ 
menting mankind are due to the fact that the en¬ 
during substances out of which the body is made, 
the twelve dusts or minerals, are not properly fed 
to the body because the food is so unnatural. If 
it shall seem wonderful that Mineral Food will 
cure all of the ailments of mankind, the wonder¬ 
ment is explained because the system is so natural. 

Since all disease is due to poor food, then why 
should it seem strange that the method of dupli¬ 
cating nature’s process by giving the body what 
it calls for should be the natural method of heal¬ 
ing? Your perfectly automatic body will heal itself 
when the necessary minerals that are needed are 
supplied. 



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But it would be folly to attempt to put these 
minerals in the body in any other form than in the 
perfect duplication of nature’s methods. That is 
why any mineral used in a drug way is apt to do 
harm instead of good. Iron in the drug form will 
rot the teeth and do other damage to the body, but 
iron in a natural food will supply the need of iron 
by duplicating nature’s process. 

You must be careful to get a perfectly natural 
Mineral Food. You do not want to attempt to 
use any substitutes. You do not want to take any 
chances. Our Mineral Food System is the cheapest 
and the most successful system of building health 
ever given to the world. The big thing to do is to 
follow in the pathway of that System that has won 
its place in the hearts of the people and has demon¬ 
strated its efficiency. The Mineral Food way can¬ 
not be used successfully unless it is used the right 
way. The only way to be sure that it is the right 
way is to follow the method that is devised by our 
company, which is the original Mineral Food 
Company. 

The Mineral Food System of Health is not a 
plan of curing disease by hitting it a blow with 
some strong medicine. All systems that aim to do 
that have failed. The Mineral Food System is a 
success because it is the only system that has ever 
perfectly duplicated nature. Your bloodstream 
must cure you through the automatic processes of 
jour body if you are ever cured. The healing 
power of nature is your only hope. Do not start 



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49 


in on this with the idea of finding out what to take 
for your disease. You see that your body is made 
of the dust of the twelve minerals, and that the 
various cells of your body must have the minerals 
upon which they are made and upon which they 
depend in order for you to be well. “Dust thou 
art and to dust thou shall return.” 

It is the great way of nature. It is the ultimate 
wisdom of the Master Mind of the universe. It is 
the way we are calling on you to adopt. It is the 
way that is spreading a real hope in the world. 
It is the way of life, and because it is such a nat¬ 
ural way it is the way of efficiency. The message 
comes to you with all of the throbbing interests 
of hope. I would not have you become disappoint¬ 
ed for anything. I cannot assume responsibility 
for you except the responsibility that I am glad 
to assume, and that is to be your humble teacher. 
Having found the way myself I want to bring that 
way to you. You must learn it and it is not diffi¬ 
cult. It is the easiest thing to learn ever given 
to the world on health. 

We will give you a message that will enable you 
to tell every day or every hour just what your 
body is needing or just what your bloodstream is 
calling for, and then you are offered the hope of 
being able to find the proper mineral substance 
in just the proper form to supply that need. If 
you will follow this system without attempting to 
amend the laws of nature but by gladly falling in 
line with nature’s methods, then you are not going 



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to be disappointed no matter what your health 
problems may be. 

It is a wonderful hope. It is a great expecta¬ 
tion. It is a tremendous plan, and you little realize 
how this thing will grip your life with enthusiastic 
devotion and how glad you will be to fall in line 
with nature’s method when you have proven out 
that nature is your best friend. You owe your life 
to the fact that nature has preserved you. You 
do not need to depend upon the skill of any other 
individual when you learn this system. The same 
Infinite Being that created your body has adjusted 
all of these laws of life so that you can easily 
learn how to take care of your body, and therefore, 
the Mineral Food System becomes your great hope. 
You can build and preserve a comfortable, strong 
body organized perfectly and working efficiently. 
The most important task of your life becomes the 
task of finding out how to properly feed the cells 
of life on which you depend. 


The Mineral Food System is Your Way to Health! 
The Language of Nature Shows You the Way! 
Follow That Way! 



LOOK AT YOUR FOOD 


CHAPTER 4. 

You have a wonderful body and it is made out 
of the dust of the earth. The vegetable kingdom 
has made that dust over in such a way that those 
minerals or dust become the food to maintain the 
life of your body, and we have tampered with 
those foods in such a way as to destroy their nat¬ 
ural content. When civilization becomes torment¬ 
ed with all manner of diseases we go around with 
our faces drawn in terror and the agony of a lost 
hope and wonder why we are sick. 

WHY THE WORLD IS SICK 

How the world does hate to admit the real cause 
of sickness. We would rather believe anything 
than that health depends on what we eat. We 
absolutely demand that we be left alone in our 
eating, drinking and smoking habits. We are 
supersensitive about these privileges. We live to 
eat, drink and smoke, “For tomorrow we die.” 
We would rather go without a drink of water than 
use a public cup, and we will wear a gas mask 
to keep out germs, but please do not ask that we 
think of anything when we eat except “IS IT 
GOOD?” 

And yet, the plain, simple logic of the statement 
that natural animals to be well must have a natural 


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food is apparent. All animals living natural lives 
and eating natural food are known to be disease 
free. Man, standing at the apex of all living 
creatures, has changed his food completely. Man 
eats nothing that is natural. Is it any wonder, 
therefore, that man leads the entire list of living 
creatures in disease? 

WHAT IS NATURAL FOOD? 

By natural food I mean a food that is just as it 
is found in nature. Wild vegetables, fruit, or meat, 
would be natural food. But all of the fine arts 
by which man has so skillfully taken away wild 
flavors and has made the food soft to the taste and 
the teeth has had the effect of removing from the 
food those natural elements which are the very 
things man needs in order to he a strong , natural 
animal . By demanding a soft, delicious food, we 
are building soft, weak bodies. 

We have been taught the wisdom of the gymna¬ 
sium as a recompense for the change we have made 
in departing from the free, open life of the primi¬ 
tive man to the sedentary life of the sophisticated 
man. We do not claim that the gymnasium is as 
good as the woods and the prairie from the stand¬ 
point of exercise, but we claim the gymnasium is 
the necessary substitute of civilization, for the 
woods and prairie. The Mineral Food System of 
Health is the same sort of relief. Man will never 
again eat a natural food. Mineral Food supplies 
that which has been lost in refined food just as the 




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gymnasium supplies the loss of primitive man’s 
exercise. 


FOOD REFORMS 

Some splendid efforts are being made to reach 
the health goal by teaching dietetics. But, the 
evil effect of eating unnatural food cannot he over¬ 
come by simply changing the manner of eating un¬ 
natural foody and this is the only thing dietetics 
aims to do. No matter how skillfully the menu is 
arranged the food is still unnatural. 

UNNATURAL FOOD 

Take a look at your food and see how unnatural 
it is. You do not want wild cherries, for they 
pucker the mouth and are mostly seeds at that, 
but you demand a nice, soft, rich, tender, juicy, 
sweet Early Richmond cherry. You do not want 
wild lettuce, but you demand a nice, tender head 
of lettuce. You do not want wild chicken, for it 
is tough and has a wild twang to the taste, but you 
want a nice, tender fat White Wyandotte. If your 
meat cutter gives you a strong, tough steak from a 
wild Texas steer, you will trade across the street, 
for you want a nice, tender steak taken from the 
loin of a white faced Hereford steer that has been 
killed before he was a year old. 

Everything you eat has been taken just as far 
away from its natural state as the ingenuity of 
man could take it, and you demand that it shall 



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be soft to the taste and teeth. This means that it 
shall be weak. Chickens that have been raised un¬ 
der unnatural conditions and eat unnatural foods 
have diseases unknown to the wild fowls. One wild 
steer could kill a carload of these beautiful, fat, 
“black leg* steers. When we insist on eating soft, 
tender meat from animals that have been bred 
away from their natural form and live unnatural 
lives in soft muddy corrals instead of the life on 
the hills, and eat unnatural food that builds flabby 
fat instead of strong, tough muscle, and are, there¬ 
fore, subject to disease, how can we expect to have 
bodies that are properly nourished, healthy and 
strong? 

UNNATURAL MILK 

I am frequently challenged to show that milk is 
unnatural. It would be natural if the cow lived 
a natural life, and ate a natural food, and gave a 
natural amount of milk. But none of these things 
are true of the modern dairy cow. “Old Speck* 
or “Brindle” was fairly natural, but I have not 
seen one for years. Our fine thoroughbred milch 
cows are wonderful creatures from the standpoint 
of man’s creation, but they are not natural ani¬ 
mals. They are not fed a natural food, for they 
do not pick their living on the hills, and they do 
not give a natural amount of milk, such as just 
enough to feed the calf. 

The dairy cow is a milk and butter fat machine, 
whereas nature intended the cow should only feed 



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her calf. We are not going back to natural cows, 
for that would be impossible from the standpoint 
of producing a cheap milk at a reasonable profit. 
The dairyman is not to blame in this. It is part 
of the great scheme of civilization. 

Like all other food problems, no one is to blame 
except that we are all to blame. The cow is fed a 
diet that is known to stimulate milk production, 
and it works so well that it breaks down the health 
of the cow and she has T. B. Then we kill the cow 
and pay the owner for his loss. How long will it 
take to stamp out T. B. by these conflicting pro¬ 
cesses? 


COW S MILK NOT FIT FOR PIGS 

Our veterinarians have discovered that pigs die 
when fed on cow's milk because it is deficient in 
lime. Why should we be surprised when our babies 
die on a milk diet that is not fit for pigs? But this 
can be easily overcome by feeding the baby Mineral 
Food. 

Nature demands of motherhood that she sacri¬ 
fice for the sake of her offspring, and in response to 
this law, the cow gives up unnatural and impos¬ 
sible quantities of lime to meet this demand in her 
milk and hence her own strength is sacrificed and 
the cow is subject to disease. When the cow be¬ 
comes deficient in lime, which has been sacrificed 
under the natural laws for preserving her off¬ 
spring, then her lung tissues lose their health and 



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strength and are sloughed off. Nature has pro¬ 
vided for all such waste matter to be consumed 
by germs; hence, we have T. B. If these T. B. 
cows are taken away from the strain of dairy 
methods and are permitted to live a natural life 
in the open air on the hills, they have been known 
to get well just as some of our T. B. human beings 
have been cured by rest, fresh air, sunshine and 
careful feeding. 

In the meantime, after the cow has done her 
best to properly mineralize this vast amount of 
milk she is compelled to give, it is still found to 
be deficient in lime, and hence, babies and even 
pigs find it hard to survive on such a food. The 
baby needs lime for its bones and its lungs and 
for its entire body. The baby does not die because 
of a germ in the milk, but because of the lime that 
is not in the milk. 

The government of the United States imported 
goats from Switzerland and other countries, and 
broadcasted the information that at last an animal 
had been discovered that was immune to T. B. 
The goat was to be a great life-saver for invalids 
and babies. But, our American stock breeders 
gave the goat the same treatment they had pre¬ 
viously given the cow. Wonderful milk records 
have been produced from goats, but the informa¬ 
tion is now being released that the goat is not im¬ 
mune to T. B. as was supposed. Strange, isn’t it? 



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WHAT SHALL WE DO? 

Shall we go back to natural food? Shall we 
change dairy methods? Shall we stop raising 
fine stock, fine fruits, fine garden products? That 
is hopeless. There are some who advocate food 
reform, but any worth while food reform must 
lead back to nature. The tendency is not that 
way. I want nice food at home and abroad and so 
do you. 

We are not going back to natural wild food. A 
bill was introduced in the Legislature of Nebraska 
to authorize farmers to raise fish for the market 
in their natural or unnatural ponds. Now, fish 
is about the only natural meat we have these days, 
but if this bill had passed it would not have been 
long until we would have had Short Horn Cat 
Fish or Golden Spangled Wyandotte Trout. No, 
we are not going back to natural food. We have 
gymnasiums to provide the exercise we lost when 
we left our natural outdoor life, so why not a 
Mineral Food to supply the mineral deficiencies 
due to all of these food changes we have been 
taught to insist upon. 

WE DUPLICATE NATURE 

But, it is said that we cannot get minerals into 
the body except in the natural food way. This was 
true until a way was found to duplicate nature’s 
methods. The mineral elements, or the dust of the 
earth, are the essential needs to all forms of animal 
life, and nature’s device for getting these minerals 



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into animal cells or tissues, has been to use the 
vegetable form of life as a vehicle. The plants 
reach down into the earth and take the minerals 
up and build plant cells, and this becomes the food 
for the animal kingdom. Hence, these forms of 
life provided a vehicle for the mineral content. 

We cannot chew a nail and get iron, nor eat 
chalk and get lime or magnesium into the cells 
of the body. Therefore, the minerals in a concen¬ 
trated form are not natural to the body, but would 
be injurious in any other form than as nature in¬ 
tended. The thing that has made the Mineral Food 
System of Health possible, is that a way has been 
found by which nature’s processes have been dupli¬ 
cated. A process has been discovered by which it 
is now possible to use a natural vehicle for the 
minerals needed in the body. 

A MINERAL FOOD DISCOVERED 

Sugar of Milk has been found to be a perfect 
vehicle for the needed minerals. It is such a per¬ 
fect food that it will not harm the weakest invalid 
or the youngest babe. Our Mineral Food is in such 
a form that it does not need all of the digestive 
processes other foods must have. After this milk 
sugar has been demineralized, it is put through 
mechanical and chemical processes in such a way 
as to carry a fine, small stream of the mineral ele¬ 
ments of which the body is made and must have 
for health and strength. The result is a product 
that is correctly named when we say Mineral Food. 



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It is a mineral in a food form, that can be used 
by the body because nature’s laws and processes 
have been duplicated for the benefit of man. 

WHAT ABOUT DIET? 

In the meantime many honest investigators who 
have sensed the fact that unnatural foods were 
breaking down the health of the world have at¬ 
tempted to overcome this difficulty by arranged 
food programs and we have many systems of die¬ 
tetics that have been promoted for which great 
claims have been made. It is claimed that wonder¬ 
ful things happened through some of these sys¬ 
tems of dietetics, and I have been appealed to from 
many quarters to promote some system of food 
that will be helpful and I want now to discuss some 
of the reasons that all such systems are not more 
advisable under all circumstances. 

As has been said before, you cannot overcome 
the evil effects of eating an unnatural food simply 
by changing the manner of eating it, and that is 
not all. It is not always advisable for anyone to 
make a radical change in his food program. You 
are a part of the great scheme of nature. You are 
living today as the result of the sifting out process 
that has been going on in the human family 
throughout the centuries that are passed. Food 
habits have constantly been changing. In every 
generation multitudes of individuals have passed 
away unable to live under these food changing 
tendencies. It is the case where the strong sur- 



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vive but the weak perish. The human family is 
living under the great law of the survival of the 
fittest, just as every other form of vegetable and 
animal life has been subject to that law. 

We have done many things we think to overcome 
that law by systems of treatment and sanitation, 
and yet the law is in operation, and all of this 
means that you are here because you have adapted 
yourself, and your ancestors did the same thing 
before you, to the food habits by which you have 
been compelled to live. 

THE GREAT WAR DISEASE. 

At the time of the last great war it became neces¬ 
sary as a war measure to make a radical change 
in the food habits of America. No nation on earth 
had cultivated the taste for sugar and sweets to 
the extent that we had done in America, and all 
at once the great motive of patriotism was put in 
motion to compel the enforcement of the edict 
which required that we should all forego the use 
of sugar to the limit of possibility and then all 
at once the world was amazed to find that an epi¬ 
demic swept the country. This epidemic was given 
the credit for destroying more human lives than 
were destroyed by the direct evils of warfare, and 
there seemed to be a sensation of amazement about 
this new disease. And yet if any such program 
should be enforced again with regard to any ele¬ 
ment of your food it would be just as dangerous as 
that war measure proved to be. 



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This is due to the fact that when your body has 
accustomed itself to any direct line of eating, it 
will work a change in all of the habits of your body, 
when you change the program of your food. If 
your mother and father before you and your ances¬ 
tors before them had developed along a certain line 
of following certain foods as a habit, then you have 
established a degree of efficiency in handling these 
particular foods, and to interfere with those 
processes by changing those foods cannot be done 
without the danger of upsetting the whole health 
and strength program. 

If there is any food that you are eating that dis¬ 
tinctly disagrees with you, common sense dictates 
the necessity and advisability of leaving off that 
food. In a general way it can be said that those 
foods that are distinctly high class from the stand¬ 
point of refined society are not good for the health. 
Rich foods, pastries, candies and all of those things 
that are extremely tasty, are always detrimental 
when used to excess, and it is common knowledge 
that this is so. It i.s also common knowledge that 
the common foods are the best foods. It is impos¬ 
sible to go out in the market and buy a natural 
food, but anyone who can follow the program of 
sticking as close to nature as possible and getting 
as natural food as possible is doing the best he 
can for his health. 

There may be some merit to such a food as whole 
wheat bread instead of white flour bread. But 
simply to eat whole wheat bread will not over- 



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come the deficiency, for even the wheat is not a 
natural wheat but it is an imported article due to 
the demand of the farmer to grow a large number 
of bushels on an acre of ground. There is no way 
to get a natural food, and yet if anyone wants to 
particularly study his food, he can do no better 
thing than to get as close to nature as possible, 
not only on bread but all foods. The green vege¬ 
tables that are on the market are just as good a 
food as can be found, but the lettuce that you grow 
in your own garden is bound to be superior to that 
highly specialized, hothouse head lettuce so tender 
and juicy. And these are the rules that are bound 
to prevail for good. The closer you can keep to 
nature the better the food. 

DIETARY PROGRAMS UNSAFE 

If I were to promote any system of directing 
your food habits it would be wrong. I have been 
asked many times to do this. I have been besought 
to give my endorsement to some particular food 
fad or hobby, and it has even been suggested that 
it would be to my profit to do so, but in view of the 
foregoing facts I consider it my duty to declare 
only such brief and easily understood principles 
as those above given. 

Those individuals who make such enthusiastic 
statements about some system of dietetics are pe¬ 
culiarly fortunate. I have seen some individuals 
who have adopted some food hobby and found that 
it worked havoc and that it was not beneficial 




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but that it was even harmful, and the reason is that 
it is never safe for anyone to make a radical change 
in his food habits, for if he does his body must 
become adjusted to the new habits, and in some 
instances that is not easily done and it might 
even cost a life. 

The plain simple fact of the business is that 
all of our food is wrong, and it is wrong because 
the minerals are either deficient in the food or else 
have been destroyed by cooking processes or else 
the minerals that are in the food are not naturally 
attenuated for the nature of the animal or the 
vegetable has been changed under man’s desire or 
economic prosperity. Our food is commercialized, 
and, therefore, it has been made to yield to com¬ 
mercial devices. No one is to blame except that all 
of us are to blame for that is the kind of food we 
demand. The only truly successful device for meet¬ 
ing this need is to learn how to recompense nature 
the Mineral Food way. 

OUR WAY WINS 

This is the firm foundation upon which the Min¬ 
eral Food System of Health stands. You need 
to be sure and to know that you have an article 
furnished to you that is good and true to the best 
processes of duplicating nature. When that is 
done, you can do no better thing than to learn 
how to supply the need, and then all you need to 
do is to eat what is set before you wherever you 
are, unless you know it is something that distinctly 



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disagrees with you and meet the deficiencies in your 
food by following the Language of Nature, giving 
the body the mineral content in a food form that 
has been worked out in the great plan by which 
nature is perfectly duplicated. 

And then this other great hope is offered. As 
you build your health, you will gradually find 
you can eat most anything, Oven some of those 
foods that once disagreed with you. I have fre¬ 
quently seen letters from our members to the effect 
that before they began to use the Mineral Food 
they could hardly eat anything, but had to confine 
themselves to the simplest kinds of food, but they 
now say, “I can eat many things that used to be 
as indigestible as carpet tacks.” In my own ex¬ 
perience there were years that I could not eat 
strawberries. In the strawberry season it was a 
constant source of temptation and aggravation for 
I craved that fruit. After I had built up my health 
the Mineral Food way, the time came when I could 
eat as many strawberries as I desired. 

BE STRONGER THAN THE WORLD ORDER 

You are a part of this great world. You need 
to live in the world and to be a part of it. 
You cannot always direct your food for when you 
go to the hotel or restaurant or when you are be¬ 
ing entertained you must eat what is set before 
you. One might almost as well be out of the world 
as not be a part of the world. By this method 
of meeting the demands, there are hundreds and 



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65 


thousands of people who learn to their great satis¬ 
faction that the problems of life in the way of 
health have been splendidly solved, and it is no 
wonder that they are shouting the praises of the 
system that brought to them and to their loved 
ones such a feeling of security, such a sensation 
of complete mastery which enables them to realize 
that no matter what happens they are going to 
be equal to the emergency for they know how to 
meet the demand. If you have not already done 
so, you will surely line up with this enthusiastic, 
happy and healthy group. 


The Mineral Food System is Your Way to Health! 
The Language of Nature Shows You the Way! 
Follow That Way! 




THE HEALING POWER OF NATURE 


CHAPTER 5. 

Throughout the centuries past the “Healing 
Power of Nature’’ has been recognized as a govern¬ 
ing law, and has been expressed bj the Latin 
phrase “Viz Medicatrix Naturae.” 

Honest, sincere, investigating men in every gen¬ 
eration have strained and struggled with the 
problem of uncovering the mystery of that law. 
All groups of the different systems of healing have 
realized that if the “healing power of nature” 
could only be perfectly understood a wonderful 
forward step could be taken. What is the healing 
power of nature? There has been a pleading cry 
from every source for a true answer to this 
question. 

Self-sacrificing and high-minded men have tried 
to uncover this law, but so long as the plan was 
followed of naming diseases and applying unnat¬ 
ural methods for healing those diseases, that law 
was evasive, out of reach and could not be 
understood. The Mineral Food System of Health 
reveals the meaning of that law. 

The body is wonderfully made, perfectly auto¬ 
matic in its adjustments, and will be well and 
strong if it receives those necessary substances for 
life in the cell. Sickness and disease are due to 


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the fact that the natural substances necessary for 
life in the cell are not there in the proper form 
or the proper amount. What could be more nat¬ 
ural than when these substances are supplied “the 
healing power of nature” will begin to take effect 
in a wonderful way, and all at once the mystery 
as to this “healing power of nature” is revealed. 

NATURE CANNOT FOLLOW UNNATURAL 
DEVICES 

The fact that men have not been able to cure 
diseases by unnatural methods should not surprise 
anyone. Nature cannot follow such devices and 
should not be expected to do so. And yet, the 
old idea of finding the name of the disease, and 
then seeking an unnatural remedy for that dis¬ 
ease, has fixed itself so strongly in man’s habit of 
thought that it is extremely difficult for all of 
us to get away from that method. There is no 
hope promised in the Mineral Food System of 
Health unless you are willing to brush your mind 
free of all of these unnatural ideas, so that you 
can begin to depend on nature’s laws as they are 
made clear to you by the Language of Nature. 

Men have been bewitched with the idea that dis¬ 
eases attack the body from some outside cause. 
In ancient days it was thought to be a devil, and 
now it is thought to be a germ. Germs have a 
bearing because they feed on the decayed sub¬ 
stances that are being discharged from the body, 
but when you begin to see that all abnormal dis- 




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charge conditions arising in the body are due to 
a deficiency of the elements needed for the chemi¬ 
cal vibrations of life, then the germ theory begins 
to lose its hold and the complete answer for the 
great question, “what is the healing power of 
nature ?” begins to unfold. We will now proceed 
to discuss that “healing power of nature,” how 
it works and what it does, and then you will see 
the sound and solid rock of truth upon which 
the Mineral Food System of Health is based. 

YOUR CELLS DEPEND UPON YOU 

Every cell in your body is fixed in its place and 
is given a particular task to perform. It is re¬ 
quired to work and toil for you. It cannot get 
out to seek its own food, but must depend upon 
you for that food. Your body has a wonderful 
organization for providing that food. The diges¬ 
tive tract and the bloodstream are the chief 
agents, and become the transportation facilities, 
so that the food may be properly prepared, broken 
up, changed in form and transported from the 
outside of your body back to the cells of life. 
You cannot force the food back; but it will go 
back in its natural way if it is in the right form, 
just as it is needed. You need not think about it, 
nor labor over the problem. It is all arranged for 
your well-being if you will only learn to let pour 
body alone. 

These processes are properly made and properly 
adjusted and never should be tinkered with, but 



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you are constantly led to tinkering with these 
adjustments by the false notions, for which you 
are not to blame, which have been impressed upon 
you. 

SENSATIONAL LIVING 

The secret, as well as the open, sins of the world 
are sins of seeking sensation, and many of the 
sensations that are not good are not looked upon 
as sins. Pleasure-seeking devices are all followed 
for the sensation of pleasure, the exhilaration of 
fun. The child goes to the picture show and when 
he comes out he wants to go to another to see if 
he can get a bigger sensation. We strive for more 
money to get a bigger life as we say, which means 
a life with a bigger sensation. The digestive tract 
has become the prey of appetites for sweet sensa¬ 
tions. It is impossible to get food that is good 
enough to suit the ever-changing appetites of 
civilization. 

Appetite, instead of being a normal craving 
of the cells for food, has become a highly culti¬ 
vated unnatural method of satisfying the habits of 
taste for ice cream and cake, with delicious pas¬ 
tries, candy and soda water, and we teach one 
another that it is all right, and fair and square, 
and yet it is this craving of unnatural appetite 
for unnatural food that is breaking down your 
health. 

It is not the sensation that is doing the harm 
except in an indirect way. The difficulty is not 



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simply due to the fact that the food tastes so 
good, but it is due to the fact that all methods and 
processes by which we have developed these de¬ 
licious foods have caused us to make those foods 
so unnatural and so deficient in a mineral content 
that can be properly used by the body, that the 
cells of the body are not being fed, even when the 
stomach is full. 

No better Coueism could be given to the world 
than to get folks to say “I am feeding my stom¬ 
ach, but starving my cells. Feeding my stomach, 
but starving my cells.” That is the thing we are 
doing, and if the world could only be convinced, a 
tremendous good would result. 

The bloodstream is dependent upon the food 
supply. The mineral elements upon which the 
cells depend for their life are carried in the blood¬ 
stream—not just one of the mineral elements, 
but all of them. If any one of them is more 
necessary than another it is that one which we 
call Lime Phosphate or Mineral Food No. 2. 

THE MINERAL MOST VITAL 

This mineral is vital to life because it is the 
base of the bloodstream. The white blood cor¬ 
puscles, which are extremely important in the 
functions of life, are dependent upon this Lime 
Phosphate for their well being. (The blood plasma, 
which carries to the cells the elements of life, 
is likewise dependent upon this mineral. Chem¬ 
ists know that Lime Phosphate has a very defi- 



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nite chemical affinity for the organic substance 
known as albumen. Meat and eggs are the chief 
albumen foods. 

The blood plasma cannot be supported and 
maintained without that mineral which has this 
chemical affinity for albumen. If the albumenoids 
reach the bloodstream without coming into imme¬ 
diate contact with this mineral they become inert 
and useless, poison the bloodstream and destroy 
the life of the entire body and, therefore, such 
inert albumen must be disposed of, for the first 
law of nature is to preserve its life. 

Under the laws of nature this albumen that is 
inert and useless will pass out in the most harm¬ 
less way possible. Therefore, some very delicately 
organized membrane peculiarly suitable for the 
discharge of albumen will first be resorted to. 
If that albumen passes out through the nose that 
it may not poison the bloodstream and contami¬ 
nate the most precious of the transportation fa¬ 
cilities of the body, then we say we have catarrh. 
And if this process continues and becomes chronic, 
the world has been taught to fear that some 
other more terrible thing will occur, and that 
tuberculosis might set in, and immediately a 
method is sought to stop that discharge. 

CURING CATARRH 

If anything is done to shrink up the membranes 
or destroy them so that they cannot discharge 
the albumen, or any unnatural method is followed, 



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as squirting high power substances up the nose 
as a means of curing catarrh, it is a positive and 
dangerous interference with nature’s great law 
which we have expressed in the words “the heal¬ 
ing power of nature ” Catarrh is nature’s method 
of preserving the life of the body by saving the 
bloodstream from contamination. Therefore, many 
methods of curing catarrh defeat this great law 
“the healing power of nature ” The only natural 
method of stopping this albumen discharge is to 
provide the needed mineral so that the albumen 
may be energized and active. This method is the 
Mineral Food Method. 

If nature’s method is defeated then the body 
must find some other way to discharge this albu¬ 
men. There will be catarrh in some other organ 
after the nasal catarrh has been cured(?). Then 
you have catarrh of the stomach, and when that 
is cured (?) there is catarrh somewhere else be¬ 
cause nature is constantly seeking another method 
of saving the bloodstream. And catarrh arises in 
one organ after another because the albumen must 
pass out in as harmless a way as possible, but if 
these less dangerous methods are constantly pre¬ 
vented by unnatural treatment then finally the 
kidneys must pass the albumen out in the urine 
and then we hear the awful words “Bright’s Dis¬ 
ease,” which is supposed to be a fatal and incur¬ 
able disease. 

But even this should be understood as nature’s 
method of attempting to prolong life, for under 



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the first law of nature to save its own life it is 
better to have “Bright’s Disease” and die slowly 
than to poison the bloodstream and die imme¬ 
diately, and this is the way the law known as 
“the healing power of nature” operates to pro¬ 
long the life. It is positively dangerous to cure 
(?) catarrh in any unnatural way. 

And yet all of this time the healing power of 
nature is working in other ways that are wonder¬ 
ful to behold. The great need of the world is to 
begin to have faith in the laws of nature. Learn 
how to give your body what it asks for. While 
these natural devices are going on other condi¬ 
tions will prevail which are due to the fact that 
the body is trying to heal itself and that the 
laws of nature are working to preserve the life. 
Yet all of the time we have failed to understand 
the meaning of the things that we have observed 
going on within us. 

NATURE S CHEMICAL LABORATORY 

The human body is a wonderful chemical lab¬ 
oratory—more wonderful than any chemical lab¬ 
oratory in any University. There is lime in the 
body in other forms, and because this form of 
phosphate becomes so necessary, chemical changes 
are brought about in such a way as to supply the 
need. 

The body has lime in the form of a fluoride. 
This fluoride is cancelled out to leave the lime 
free. The body has phosphorous with other com- 



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binations, such as Potassium Phosphate, and this 
potassium is cancelled out so as to leave the 
phosphorous free, then the free lime and free 
phosphorous come together and supply the Lime 
Phosphate so necessary to the bloodstream. And 
because the bloodstream is so important Nature’s 
laws work in such a way as to deprive other 
organs of the body not so immediately necessary 
to life in order that the bloodstream needs may 
be supplied even at the expense of the comfort 
and efficiency of other parts of the body. 

In order to assist you to visualize the above 
statement the following illustration is offered: 

Lime Fluoride — (Cancelled out). 

(Cancelled out)— Potaooium Phosphate. 

Lime Phosphate—(Is Supplied). 

The teeth are very necessary from the stand¬ 
point of comfort in the mouth, beauty to the face 
and for chewing the food, but not nearly as essen¬ 
tial to life as the bloodstream, and, therefore, na¬ 
ture requires the teeth to make a sacrifice for the 
emergency needs of the whale body. This lime in 
the fluoride form is the mineral that builds the 
enamel of the teeth, and when the teeth are de¬ 
prived of this mineral for the sake of the blood¬ 
stream, the teeth decay. 

We have the very common expression among 
mothers that they lose a tooth with every child 
they bear. Under the experience of pregnancy 





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and child-birth, the need of the babe for lime to 
build bone and other cells becomes so great and 
the food supply is so deficient that the teeth are 
called upon to sacrifice as explained above, and 
this common experience of motherhood is better 
understood in the light of these natural laws. 

THE FIRST GREAT LAW OF LIFE 

It is the effort of that law of life which we have 
expressed as “the healing power of nature” to 
preserve the life of the entire organism by causing 
those organs not so essential to life to sacrifice 
for the benefit of the entire body. The first great 
law of life is to preserve itself. It is recognized 
in all nature. It is recognized even in the laws 
of man, for self-defense is a perfect defense if it 
can be proven in a murder case. All of the laws 
of life depend upon that law of preserving life as 
the first great law, and then this other law, “the 
healing power of nature” becomes the method by 
which the first great law does its work. 

FLABBY DISEASES 

But the teeth are not the only parts that are 
required to sacrifice for the benefit of the whole 
body. Lime Fluoride builds and maintains the 
cells which we call the elastic fibre of the body. 
This fibre Is very similar to rubber. It will 
stretch and it will contract, and it is these cells 
which give tonicity to the muscles. Your muscles 
depend upon these rubber cells for their ability to 
contract. 



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When this Lime Fluoride becomes seriously 
needed as a means of supplying the greater need 
of this vital mineral for the bloodstream, and 
must be taken out of the different parts of the 
body in order to make the sacrifice for the well 
being of the whole body, the rubber of your body 
becomes soft and flabby. 

Perhaps you have piles. If so, it is simply a 
sagging muscular tissue. Which is the better thing 
to do: cut it off and throw it away, or feed the 
body what it is asking for when you have these 
sagging, flabby rubber cells and build them up 
and make that muscle strong? Hundreds of Min¬ 
eral Food people have proven the truth of this 
theory. It is another expression of “the healing 
power of nature” One part of the body is 
called upon to sacrifice in order that the general 
life of the body may be maintained. 

If the piles are removed, then perhaps the next 
thing to suffer would be the muscular walls in 
the veins of the leg, and they become flabby and 
we call that varicose veins. Shall we cut them 
open and take out a slice, or will it not be better 
to feed the body what the body is asking for when 
it tells you by these sagging conditions that you 
need Lime Fluoride to build the elastic fibres? 

And then after the varicose veins are tightened 
up by some violent and unnatural method which 
does not give the body what it needs, perhaps the 
next sign of a deficiency of this mineral is a rup- 



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77 


ture and another operation may be performed. 
Then it is the appendix which has gotten all out 
of shape and out of place, because it is so flabby 
that it could not be maintained in its proper 
form; it became so weak that it could not dis¬ 
charge foreign bodies which entered that space, 
and inflammation and pus ensue. Then we cut it 
off and throw it away and say it is not necessary 
to the body. Or it may be a tumor, and so on 
down the list of sagging and flabby conditions 
that arise from the crown of the head to the soles 
of the feet. 

YOUR FACE TELLS YOUR SECRETS 

The face shows the need, for the muscles of the 
face begin to hang with drooping lines and we 
call it the sign of old age, but it is not that at 
all. It is merely the rubber of the body that is 
weak and flabby because the body is not being 
fed the minerals needed to maintain the elastic 
fibre. Or it may be broken arches, and the bones 
of the feet sag out of shape and become painful 
and distressing. Walking becomes a labor in¬ 
stead of a joy, because the muscles of the feet 
are flabby and cannot support the natural arch 
of the foot. And all manner of unnatural devices 
have been used in the attempt to heal these very 
simple and easily understood conditions when 
once we begin to see that the real problem of life 
is to feed the cells instead of feeding the stom¬ 
ach, or that the real thing to do is to build health 
the natural way instead of treating diseases. 



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But last of all the valves of the heart may get 
flabby and the heart cannot force the blood out 
under pressure, because the valves do not close 
and the blood rushes back, or we say the heart 
becomes enlarged, whereas it would be more 
truthful to say that the heart is soft and flabby 
and since it is impossible to perform operations 
on the heart, we complacently conclude that there 
is nothing to be done but to arrange the affairs 
of life and prepare to die. And yet there are 
Mineral Food people today who are gloriously 
shouting the praises of the Mineral Food System 
of Health, having won the great victory over so- 
called incurable conditions above described. Men 
and women are proving it everywhere. 

THE OTHER MINERAL SACRIFICES 

But this Lime Fluoride was not the only min¬ 
eral which was taken from its natural function 
in the body and made to sacrifice for the more 
vital needs of the body. There was Potassium 
Phosphate, lost in the case above, and notice how 
the “healing power of nature” operates along the 
line of that mineral in the body. 

The natural function of this mineral is to build 
and support in perfect health those cells known as 
the gray-matter cells of the nervous system. The 
nervous system is a wonderful thing, and it is 
a tremendous need, but it is not so vital to life 
as the bloodstream. Therefore, under the law of 
“the healing power of nature” the nerves are 



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79 


required to sacrifice that the chemical needs of 
the bloodstream may be maintained. 

The brain cells must have Potassium Phosphate, 
and if they are deprived, the brain will become 
diseased, and some of the brain diseases are due 
to this deficiency. Those who have nervous pros¬ 
tration; women who suffer the tortures of the 
damned because of their hysterical condition; 
men who become disqualified in business because 
they make mountains out of molehills and see 
things worse than they are, become irritable 
and fretful, and even those diseases which come 
under the dreadful classification of insanity, may 
all be brought about by reason of that deficiency. 

You might say that you would rather be dead 
than insane; and so would I, but in nature the 
first great law is to preserve life. It is more im¬ 
portant under the laws of nature to preserve life 
than it is to think straight. In some unfortunate 
cases this loss of mental power is due to the work¬ 
ing of the great law which is a blessed law because 
it saves more lives than any or all of the things 
that man, in his erring and mistaken way, has 
ever been able to do. 

ANOTHER SACRIFICE 

There are other minerals in the body that have 
a phosphorous base. Sometimes the laws of na¬ 
ture operate in such a way as to take Magnesium 
Phosphate out of the body in order to produce 
the cancellation as given below: 



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Lime Fluoride —(Cancelled out). 

(Cancelled out)— Magnooium Phosphate. 

Lime Phosphate—(Is Supplied). 

Then the body is disturbed in other ways 
because Magnesium Phosphate becomes deficient. 
This is the mineral that builds the white fibres of 
the nervous system. All of those conditions which 
we describe as spasmodic or convulsive, such as 
St. Vitus dance and palsy are simply the outside 
signs that follow when the nerve fibres are com¬ 
pelled to sacrifice their life-giving mineral in 
order that the perfect natural law, which pre¬ 
serves life, first of all under the law “the healing 
power of nature” may do its perfect work. For 
it is better to suffer with these spasmodic nervous 
diseases than to die a sudden and terrible death, 
which would surely follow if the bloodstream is 
poisoned or starved. 

Some other phosphate, such as the Sodium 
Phosphate mineral of the body is compelled to 
sacrifice in order to make the cancellation as 
follows: 

Lime Fluor - i4e —(Cancelled out). 

(Cancelled out)— Sodium Phosphate. 

Lime Phosphate—(Is Supplied). 

This mineral, that has the duty in the body of 
taking care of acid which in some forms are nat¬ 
ural and necessary, is the alkali that modifies and 







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81 


controls or neutralizes tlie acids of the body, 
and another long list of diseases such as sour 
stomach, some forms of female trouble, head¬ 
aches, gout, rheumatism and the like, are bound 
to occur when this mineral becomes deficient be¬ 
cause it must be sacrificed. 

MINERAL FOOD IS NOT SPECIFIC 

Do not think now that all you need to do to 
cure insanity is to supply that Potassium Phos¬ 
phate mineral; that all you need to do to cure 
St. Yitus Dance is to eat Magnesium Phosphate; 
that piles may be cured simply by eating Calcium 
Fluoride, or that any mineral will cure the. dis¬ 
eases named when taken as a medicine. It does 
not work that way. I am sorry that is so. I 
sincerely regret that I must say so. I do not 
say so for any other reason than that it is so. 
That is not nature’s way, and no man can change 
the laws of nature. 

The mineral content of the body is arranged in 
a very accurately worked out proportion. The 
minerals must be in perfect continuity as we say, 
not equal amounts but proportionate. No one 
was ever deficient in only one mineral, and no one 
can think of one disease and cure it with one 
mineral. Mineral Food does not cure disease in 
a specific, therapeutic or materia medica way. 
It is not a drug effect at all. 

Mineral Food does not go directly to the spot 
you want it to go and hit a blow at the disease 



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you are aiming at. You cannot cure disease in 
any such fashion with Mineral Food, or hy any 
other such method. The Mineral Food System of 
Health is based on natural law. There is no way 
to reach these conditions except through the 
bloodstream. It is the bloodstream that will make 
the body well or that keeps the body well. You 
simply feed the bloodstream and allow the blood¬ 
stream to move out in just the way it must go 
under the laws of nature. 

Anyone, therefore, who would attempt to follow 
the statements that are made in this lecture by 
picking up a mineral mentioned as related to 
certain diseases and attempting to use it as a 
specific remedy for those diseases would certainly 
be disappointed. There is no way to reach that 
fine result of perfect health except to feed the 
body every day what it asks for, to select each 
day that which is most called for, to supply the 
chief needs of the body and not attempt to treat 
specific organs by following specific Mineral Food 
remedies. You must build up the mineral needs 
of the body in just the right proportion or in a 
straight line. You must learn how to follow the 
natural needs, which are so easy that a child 
can understand when you get started right. 

YOU CAN DO IT 

The method by which your body keeps telling 
you what it needs is perfectly described in that 
part of MunselPs Mineral Food System of Health 



MUNSELL’S LECTURES 


known as the “Language of Nature.” It is won¬ 
derfully simple and it is easy to illustrate. An 
illustration can be taken from the everyday life 
of my little seven year old boy. 

My little boy came running into the house one 
day and the first thing he did was to go to the 
desk where we keep a stock of Mineral Food. I 
watched him and I saw him pick up No. 6 and 
eat one tablet. It occurred to me to find out what 
his idea was, for I knew this boy had never read 
one single line of the Language of Nature. He 
has just grown up with Mineral Food in the home. 
He has no doubt about it for he has seen it work 
from babyhood. He knows nothing about the 
theory of the thing. He does not understand any 
of the principles involved, but he had some reason 
for taking No. 6 and I wanted to see what it was. 
So I asked my boy why he was eating No. 6. He 
replied in his careless fashion, “Oh, I didn’t sleep 
good last night, and I had a headache this morn¬ 
ing and I couldn’t sit still at school.” 

How did he know this? We have a rule in our 
home never to give any of the children any 
Mineral Food for anything unless it is understood 
why it is taken and what it is for. That seven 
year old boy has had these experiences and some¬ 
one has told him time and again what the Mineral 
Food was needed for, and he had three calls for 
No. 6. He did not even know that word nervous¬ 
ness. His older sister with the same syyptoms 
might have replied, “Oh, Fm nervous.” He did 



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not know whether the name of his disease was 
hemiplegia, dementia-praecox, paresis or kata- 
tonia. He knew nothing about the symptoma¬ 
tology, the pathology, or the diagnostic problems 
of his disease, but he did know the one all im¬ 
portant thing—he knew that he needed No. 6, and 
if he had known the name of his disease that 
would not have helped him one bit to know what 
Mineral Food he needed, and he knew another 
very blessed thing—he knew that when he used 
No. 6 properly he always received the benefit. 

Mineral Food No. 6 is as you know, Potassium 
Phosphate, which we have been talking about. It 
is so simple that a child can understand it. If it 
were not so, this system would not do the won¬ 
derful work it is doing. 

A PERFECTLY NATURAL SYSTEM 

Mineral Food is perfectly harmless and it is 
perfectly natural to the body. It cannot possibly 
do any injury whatever, and when it is used in the 
proper way it does a wonderful amount of good. 

There are many, people who get very impatient 
because they do not understand it perfectly the 
first week or the first month. If you will take 
the Mineral Food System of Health and live with 
it, use it and not worry because you may not 
understand all about it the first week or month, 
but will patiently stay with it until you become 
accustomed to the method, you can learn it, un- 



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85 


derstand it, and yon can win the victory you so 
much desire. 

Earnest and conscientious men in their great de¬ 
sire to master the problem of health have been 
laboriously looking Up Greek and Latin root 
words to apply to groups of conditions and symp¬ 
toms as names for diseases, have been seeking 
for violent and unnatural methods of killing those 
diseases, have been experimenting with drugs and 
“monkey wrench” devices, and all of the time have 
been talking about the wonderful law by which 
nature heals itself. And here we have shown 
the reasons, the whys and wherefores, and there 
is nothing wonderful about it. It is simply the 
most natural thing in the world because “the 
healing power of nature” is only nature at work 
responding to the first great law of nature which 
is to preserve its own life. All of the dis¬ 
eases which have been classified and named, mean 
nothing at all and have no place in the only 
perfectly natural system of health ever given to 
the world. This is “the healing power of nature ” 

The cells of life must have the minerals around 
which the vibrations of life take place. If the 
nerve cells, for instance, fail to get their mineral 
supply they will make their needs known. Hys¬ 
teria and crying spells, are a part of the Language 
of Nature, and these symptoms tell all Mineral 
Food people just when Mineral Food is needed. 
These nerve cells have no way of expressing the 
need except to follow the law of their nature 




THE HEALING POWER OF NATURE 


and being. The chief law of the nerve cell is irri¬ 
tability. That is the reason why it is a nerve 
cell. In making known its needs, it does so by 
making the symptom of irritability. The elastic 
fibres make their needs known by showing up 
sagging and flabby conditions for that is the 
nature and law of their being. The Language of 
Nature, the most blessed thing ever given to the 
world is, therefore, so perfectly scientific that 
it responds in every respect to the laws of nature. 

YOUR CELLS DEPEND UPON YOU 

Your cells of life placed back within your 
body and having no means of getting out of your 
body must tell you in some form of distress the 
needs of their being. They toil for you unceas¬ 
ingly and uncomplainingly. If you will feed 
them, they will never go on a strike; they will 
never demand an increase in their wages; they 
will never complain or torment you, but if you, 
being a victim of civilized society, have responded 
to the fashions in society by cultivating tastes 
and appetites that starve your cells, just as I have 
done and just as all the world is doing, then 
what can be more natural than that your cells 
will torment you if you feed your stomach but 
starve the fountains of life in your body. 

REJOICE AND BE GLAD 

Your life is not maintained by feeding your 
stomach. Your life is maintained by getting the 



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natural elements of life back to the cells of life 
where the reactions or vibrations of life take 
place. You must provide these elements if you 
want to live. If you must live as a part of the 
world, do as the world does, and eat as the world 
eats. There is no way to escape except to make the 
recompense. You must supply the need. If you 
go to the table and eat a food three times a day 
which fails to supply that need, you should be glad 
and rejoice and clap your hands and shout for 
joy when you find a method has been discovered 
by which nature’s processes are so perfectly 
duplicated that you can supply to your body 
those elements that are needed in your body just 
as your body tells you they are needed, and do 
it in such a way that the need back at the foun¬ 
tain of life is perfectly supplied, and life and 
health may then be perfectly maintained. 

The great secret of success that goes with the 
Mineral Food System of Health is due to the 
fact that we are teaching the world to stop acting 
as though something is wrong with the body and 
that we must resort to some strong method of 
curing the body. You think you must do some¬ 
thing quick to get well. But the fact is, that all 
that anybody can do to get well is just let the 
body get well of itself by giving it what it asks 
for. It is perfectly automatic, it is perfectly 
created and it is perfectly adjusted. It is all 
sufficient unto itself and all it needs is food. 
Not oceans of food, not delicious appetizing food, 
but food that responds to the laws of nature. 



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The chief thing that you must do is to stop in¬ 
terfering with the health of your body by ridicu¬ 
lous and unnatural things we have all been taught 
to do which hinder the healing power of nature 
rather than help it. Your body will tell you by 
the Language of Nature just what it needs. Your 
body is asking each day for the things it needs. 

I am what men would call perfectly well. I 
look well, I eat well, I sleep well, and I work 
hard, but there is never a day but that I am 
able to sense that there are certain minerals called 
for by my body, and I take great joy in the fact 
that I have learned what those simple signs mean, 
and that I am able to carry in my pocket in a 
fine form a perfectly manufactured article that 
duplicates all of nature’s processes and enables 
my bloodstream to pick up an infinitesimal load, 
a real small, but tremendously important burden 
and carry it out to the cells of my body to feed 
my body all of the time just those substances 
needed for the perfect chemical reactions or vibra¬ 
tions of life. By this means I keep well and 
strong and fit for the emergencies of life, and you 
can do the same. 

A GREAT NEW HOPE 

I cannot help it if these things sound strange. 
If there were any way to honestly put this truth 
before you without so many new and strange 
sounding statements, it would certainly be to my 
personal advantage to do so. If it seems to be 




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a new thought to you, be happy. Take courage! 
That new thought should fill you with hope. If 
you have tried everything and are discouraged, 
then hear what our members say about Mineral 
Food. Watch them get well. Wait as long as 
you dare. Investigate. Satisfy yourself in any 
way that you can, but there is only one way that 
you can completely satisfy yourself and that is 
to prove it. 

You can prove that these things are so. Others 
have done it. It requires no special scientific 
preparation. Anyone who can read the newspaper 
and understand it can understand and follow the 
Language of Nature. The very fact that you are 
reading this message proves that you are looking 
for something new. You have tried the old ways 
and they have failed. Now that you have found 
something new, do not be astonished, but reach 
out and take it for your comfort and healing. 

It is a fact that when this thing is once in 
the home and the knowledge is once imparted in 
the right way and is taught by the right system 
and a Mineral Food that is properly prepared is 
used as it should be, then it works in a wonderful 
way and it fills the lives of those who have proven 
it with an enthusiasm that knows no bounds, be¬ 
cause in the midst of failure and after many dis¬ 
couragements, the blessed experience of virility, 
health and strength and a return to usefulness 
with a hope of life becomes the abundant cause 
for enthusiasm. 



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What a wonderful new hope and security awaits 
you. Mineral Food people feel secure. They 
learn by proving and experience that the past 
distress, expense, mental anxiety and suffering 
is over. They see all in the home strong and 
well. They began this system with fears and 
doubts but have come out enthusiastic and say it 
is better than they expected. The children are 
more efficient at school. The housewife finds that 
those duties that used to make life a burden have 
become a joy. The breadwinner is stronger for 
his tasks and finds success is coming. Of course 
they are enthusiastic and if you knew that “the 
half has never yet been told” you would lose no 
time. You would prove it too. 


The Mineral Food System is Your Way to Health! 
The Language of Nature Shows You the Way! 
Follow That Way! 




THE MEANING OF PAIN 


CHAPTER 6. 

The world is suffering. Bodies are racked and 
torn with pain, pleading for relief. Loving hands 
bring cold packs and hot packs, and careful mas¬ 
saging helps some; the pillows are smoothed with 
tender care and everything is done that can be 
done so far as knowledge has enabled us to go, but 
all of this is not enough. The plaintive cry con¬ 
tinues to plead, until we regretfully shoot into 
the bloodstream the deadly poison that puts the 
nerves to sleep. We know it is wrong, but merciful 
hearts do it, for we cannot stand by and see the 
loved ones suffer. 

What does all of this mean? What is the cause? 
Why need it be so? If there was ever a time when 
we need to speak plainly, with absolute honesty 
and as convincingly as possible, it is when we dis¬ 
cuss the wonderful things that we know about pain 
as revealed by the Mineral Food System of Health. 

Your body is made up of cells. Those cells are 
your faithful servants. Every chemical vibration 
of your life takes place in those cells. Your life 
depends upon your cells and your cells depend 
upon you for their life. They are faithful little 
creatures. They work and they toil for you. They 
have those mysterious instincts of nature upon 
which all life depends. Every part of your body 


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THE MEANING OF PAIN 


is dependent upon every other part of your body, 
and your whole body is dependent upon the intelli¬ 
gent attention you give to the needs of your body. 

These cells will never go on a strike. They will 
never create a disturbance, and they will never 
cause you any pain, if you respond to their needs 
and give them only those things that they must 
have to live and toil for you. They never ask for 
a hypodermic injection of morphine, or any other 
high powered drug to quiet the nerves, so that 
they cannot make the needs of your body known 
to you. Such methods must always be wrong. 
They do want and they must have the necessary 
elements of life. 

There are many methods by which your cells ask 
for what they need, all of which point to the min¬ 
erals or the dust the body requires, and those things 
are explained in the Language of Nature which is 
so simple that a child can understand it. These 
calls for minerals come to you day after day, but 
you do not understand the calls. You are not to 
be scolded for that for the knowledge has not been 
available to you. It has been hidden away with 
jealous care in the secret archives of scientific lit¬ 
erature. For many years scientists have quarrelled 
about these secrets, fearing that this simple knowl¬ 
edge would reach the world and overturn some 
mistaken theories about germs and other pathologi¬ 
cal misconceptions which have become sacred to 
science because the weight of scientific authority 
has been given to these misconceptions. 



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93 


The world has never had an opportunity to learn 
of these things until this Mineral Food movement 
began to broadcast the discoveries that had been 
made for your benefit, but which have been hidden 
from your eyes while the sand and dust storm of 
scientific controversy went on. 

Every cell in your body has its special needs de 
pending upon the special duty it must perform. 
Notice now what Mineral Food No. 1 does in your 
body, and then you will understand just what must 
happen in the cells of your body when that need 
is not supplied. Then there can be no doubt in 
your mind as to why the Mineral Food System does 
such wonderful things, for you will see that it is 
so natural that it must be so. Pain is one way 
nature follows of telling you what your cells need, 
and the wonderful thing about it is, that all you 
have to do is to learn to understand what your 
pains mean and supply the need and the pains 
will stop. The reason Mineral Food people are 
so enthusiastic is that this is the only “honest to 
goodness” system of health ever offered that is 
really based on natural law. 

THE NO. 1 PAINS 

Calcium Fluoride, Mineral Food No. 1, builds 
the elastic fibres of your body. These are really 
rubber cells provided by nature to make your 
muscles strong. They build up what we call the 
tonicity in your body, which gives to your muscles 
their power and makes them hard and firm. For 




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without this elastic fibre or rubber you would be 
as helpless as a jelly fish. This elastic fibre is 
built by Mineral Food No. 1, and you cannot do 
your work unless this elastic fibre is sustained by 
that mineral upon which it depends. 

You go to the table three times a day and eat 
a delicious food which is perfectly sanitary, but 
does not contain the minerals in the right form 
even if the minerals are there, so that there is a 
wastage and you do not get what you need. Then, 
of course, the cells will be deprived of that mineral 
on which they depend. 

In that case the elastic fibre, or rubber of your 
body, will become soft and flabby and will not 
have the strength and pulling power to give the 
muscles contractility, and your cells will tell you 
about this need by all of the signs in the Language 
of Nature, and you will notice the muscles are 
flabby and your face will have those drooping lines, 
or you may have piles, which shows that the mus¬ 
cular walls of the rectum are flabby. Female 
trouble, or falling of the womb, is a case of flabby 
muscles which fail to support that organ. Every 
flabby condition in the body is due to this cause. 

These signs keep coming to you for months or 
years and you do not understand, and it goes on 
until after a while your need becomes so great 
and the deficiency is so desperate that nature is 
required to resort to some method which is akin 
to torment. It is an act of mercy if you under¬ 
stand what it means. Your cells are starving 




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with your stomach full. The food may satisfy 
your hunger, but if it does not satisfy the cells 
of your body then your life is in danger, and don’t 
you want the laws of nature to warn you by hurt¬ 
ing you when your life is in danger? Then what 
sense can there be in doing as you have been taught 
to do when you put the nerves to sleep to stop the 
pain? 

These things have been going on with you until 
something had to be done, and at last you have 
what is described in the Language of Nature as a 
dragging, sagging, bearing down pain. What 
could be more simple? What could be more true 
to the facts? What could nature do that would 
be more of a blessing to you than to give you a 
timely warning of impending danger? There are 
many things far more dangerous than pains. If 
your heart gets so flabby that it cannot do its work 
you will die. If your blood vessels in the brain 
get so flabby that they break you will have 
apoplexy. 

If you ever see a man walking about with his 
back bent over and hear him complain about lum¬ 
bago, which is a sagging, dragging pain in the 
back, because the elastic fibres are not able to sup¬ 
port the muscles of his back, or the muscles that 
support interior organs in the lower abdominal 
region, then you notice he bends over, because by 
doing that he stretches the muscles out and re¬ 
lieves the pain by overcoming in this way the sag¬ 
ging, dragging conditions of the muscles of his 




THE MEANING OF PAIN 


back. But he keeps stooping further and further 
until he bends almost horizontal to the ground, 
and many an individual has become deformed be¬ 
cause of a perpetual condition like this. Why 
would it not be better to restore the tonicity of the 
cells by feeding the bloodstream the thing your 
cells are calling for? The simplicity of the Mineral 
Food System of Health is surprising. We have 
said time and again that it is so simple that a 
child can understand. Is there anyone who is 
able to get along in the world in an ordinary way 
who is not able to know when he has a sagging, 
dragging pain? 

Have you ever seen womanhood tormented by 
sagging, dragging, bearing down pains which we 
call falling of the womb? What sense can there 
be in cutting the muscles and sewing them up 
shorter in order to pull the parts up where they 
belong when all that is needed is to supply the 
bloodstream with that food the elastic fibre cells 
are calling for? They will pull these parts back 
into place, and do it in a comfortable way without 
loss of time and the whole body is benefited while 
this is going on for other flabby conditions of the 
body are also strengthened. 

Have you ever experienced the mental anguish 
and anxiety in the presence of poor suffering moth¬ 
erhood when afterpains torment the suffering 
mother when she needs rest and comfort after 
delivery? It is nothing except nature’s effort to 
draw the parts back in place. But when the nec- 



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essary minerals to make the elastic fibres strong 
are not there, then the parts cannot contract. The 
only reason it is more likely to happen with the 
second or third child is that the mother is more 
likely to be deficient the more often she bears 
children. 

The laws of nature compel motherhood to sacri¬ 
fice for the benefit of the offspring. It is a beauti¬ 
ful law, but it causes much suffering, not only to 
the mother, but the infant suffers too. It is not 
only a problem of the food being deficient, but 
it is also because the mother was required by 
nature to supply the babe which lay close to her 
heart this lime mineral so necessary for the perfect 
development of the new life, but which was also 
necessary to her own well being. 

It does not matter whether this sagging, drag¬ 
ging pain is in the gums around the teeth, which 
have become flabby, nor does it matter if it is an 
appendix that is flabby, the liver that is en¬ 
larged, a kidney that is “floating” (?), vari¬ 
cose veins, or any other sagging, flabby part. It 
is always the same thing. Wherever there is such} 
a condition it is a call for Mineral Food No. 1, and/ 
our Mineral Food members know it well, and they 
also know to their great happiness that this i^ 
more than theory, for they have proven that when, 
nature has been supplied and the body is fed 
through the bloodstream the Mineral Food that isi 
made so fine that nature has been perfectly dupli¬ 
cated, then these pains cease to torment them, be- 



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cause the faithful little cells of their bodies who 
work and toil for them seem to say “Thank you,” 
and go about their work in a perfectly comfortable 
fashion and leave them alone as soon as the need, 
is supplied. 


THE NO. 2 PAINS 


You have cells in your bloodstream which you 
call white corpuscles. They are peculiar looking 
little creatures looking something like this 



or they may look like this, or this cell above may 
change its form as shown by the dotted lines. 



They have a peculiar form of movement. They 
have no feet upon which to travel and they have 
no method of pushing themselves along, but they 
can change their form as shown above. They may 
look different at different times. This little cell 
moves by sort of slipping out of itself and then 
into itself, seeming to go slithering along, and 
above is indicated the possibility of this movement 
as shown by solid lines when the cell is at rest, 
and by dotted lines indicating how it has gradually 
moved out of itself and yet into itself, and by 
this means it moves along. 



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These cells are faithful little creatures. They 
live and they toil for you. They are loyal and 
true. If you treat these cells fair and square 
by feeding them what they need they will do noth¬ 
ing to torment you. Their life depends upon you, 
and your life depends on them, and all they ask of 
you is that you provide their food for them, for 
they cannot leave your body and go out and seek 
their own food. If you select your food to ap¬ 
pease your cultivated taste for sensations, and 
eat a food that starves these cells, they will re¬ 
mind you of their needs by the only natural method 
at their command. Billions of these cells will be¬ 
gin to move and work hard, for they are hungry, 
and you will have creeping and crawling or slith¬ 
ering, quivering feelings. You may feel that in 
your knee, or you may feel that on your arm, and 
it may not hurt very much, but you did not under¬ 
stand. If you do not supply their needs and the 
deficiency becomes greater and the need becomes 
a desperate one, then finally they will make a 
stronger appeal, and it will become stronger and 
stronger until at last it takes the form of pain, 
and you have learned to complain and to say 
“'Neuritis,” or perhaps you have called it neural¬ 
gia, or perhaps you have said it was rheumatism. 
It does not matter what you call it. The name of 
the disease does not matter and does not help you 
one bit. You stand it as long as you can, and then 
you take something that is dangerous to your life 
even though it may be said that it is perfectly safe. 




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If you do not respond to the needs of these 
little cells after a while you feel a creeping, crawl- 
ling, grinding, tearing, slithering, quivering, flut¬ 
tering, tingling pain. 

The cell is not tormenting you for any other than 
a perfectly natural reason. It has waited patient¬ 
ly for you to supply its natural food so it could 
work and toil for you. It responds to the highest 
instincts of nature which is to save its own life. If 
you were to get hungry would you not move about 
and be vigorous about it as long as you could move? 
Have you ever read how poor, starving refugees 
walk and walk because they are pursued by an 
agonizing hunger that will not let them alone, and 
never stop walking until they drop in their tracks 
and die? Your own cells follow that same instinct. 
By instinct they know when their lives are in dan¬ 
ger and when they suffer they express their agony 
to you in a way that is natural to their being. When 
they hurt you they are only loyal to you, for they 
are warning you of their needs. They express their 
agony to you by compelling you to share their 
agony with them, and hence that uncomfortable 
sensation which torments you and which you call 
a pain. This is a part of the Language of Nature 
and surely it is perfectly natural. 

Why should it seem strange to say that if you 
feed these little cells the food they must have to 
live, and work, and toil for you they will go about 
their work, happy and loyal and they will cease to 
torment you? 



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So far as we know there is no distinct pain call 
for No. 3. 


THE NO. 4 PAINS 

This mineral is iron. It is the iron on the red 
corpuscles that carries the oxygen back to the cells. 
When the body is deficient in iron it becomes im¬ 
possible for the cells to receive the proper supply 
of oxygen which they must have to live. Inflam¬ 
mation and fevers are the indirect result of insuffi¬ 
cient oxidation, and there will be various local 
symptoms of congestion or stoppages with sore 
or inflamed regions where it becomes hard for the 
blood to pass through on account of the conges¬ 
tion. Because of the congestion and soreness it 
hurts you to have the blood forced through and 
each beat of the heart gives you a pounding, throb¬ 
bing, hammering, beating pain. Burns, scalds, 
cuts, and wounds of every sort are emergencies 
when the first demand of nature is for oxygen, and 
the pain in all such mechanical injuries is nature’s 
method of expressing its need for iron. 

If your cells ever ask you for iron by nature’s 
language of a beating, throbbing pain, and you 
supply that need the pain will stop, and it does 
not matter if it is a felon, a toothache, headache 
or appendicitis, or what the name of the disease 
may be. 

Nothing was ever given to the world so plain, so 
simple, so sensible and so logical as the firm found¬ 
ation and the sure possibility of knowing what 




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the body is asking for as taught by the Language 
of Nature. What better names could be applied to 
these conditions than to call them the Language of 
Nature? Is it not so natural that you can see that 
it is nature speaking to you? And the pity of it 
is that nature is crying out loud with suffering 
and agony the world over and speaking a Language 
that has not been understood. We have tried to 
do everything else but the natural thing. We have 
listened to any kind of a solution for pain except 
the natural one. The Language of Nature tells 
exactly what the cells need, and if you answer the 
call the pain will stop, and why not? 

So far as we know there is no distinct No. 5 pain 
call. 


THE NO. 6 PAINS 

The gray-matter cells in the nervous system must 
have Potassium Phosphate or Mineral Food No. 6. 
If these cells are not supplied there will be nervous¬ 
ness and sleeplessness, and many other signs as 
described in the Language of Nature. And finally, 
if the call for help by those signs is not answered 
and the deficiency becomes great, nature must re¬ 
sort to this last and desperate pain method of let¬ 
ting you know what the cells must have. The pain 
calling for No. 6 is a lame, achy, pain with a para¬ 
lyzed feeling. There is no power to move, it hurts 
to move, and you don’t want to move. You are 
not totally paralyzed but you don’t want to move. 
Such pains are better after you move around a 



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while and are always worse when you first begin 
to move. 

Anyone who has that kind of a pain needs No. 
6. It does not matter what the name of the disease 
may be. You may call it sciatic rheumatism if 
you like, but there are many other diseases that 
have been named for the amusement of man where 
the pain was nothing but a No. 6 pain, and the 
pain is characteristic to those nerve tissues. It is 
a paralytic pain. The cells hurt, and they hurt 
worse if disturbed and give the peculiar sensation 
of their nature. There is certainly nothing won¬ 
derful about easing such a pain by simply giving 
the cells what they are suffering for. Hundreds 
have proven that these things are so and you can 
prove it just as they have done. 

THE NO. 7 PAINS 

The function of the No. 7 mineral, which is 
Potassium Sulphate, is to manufacture the oil that 
lubricates the pores of the skin in such a way 
that they open and close automatically as they 
should. Some of the poisonous waste matters of 
the body pass out through the skin. If this mineral 
becomes deficient and these pores close up, then 
these vapors that should pass out accumulate. 
They are peculiarly irritating to the white fibre 
nerve ends that come out to the skin surface which 
creates a disturbance with those nerves and they 
tell you about it in the form of a pain and you 
say that it is a sharp, cutting, stitching pain, but 



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you also notice that it is a shifting pain, that it 
jumps about to first one part of the body and then 
another, which is perfectly characteristic of the 
fact that the poison is stopped first at one part of 
the skin and then another and you get the sensa¬ 
tion first in one place and then in another. 

Is there anything peculiar or strange in saying 
that when you understand this call and supply the 
need by feeding the body No. 7, so that the pores 
of the skin are opened to pass out the poisonous 
vapors, that such a pain will cease to torment 
you? Is there anything difficult about understand¬ 
ing that kind of a pain call? It is so simple and 
easy that anyone who can read a newspaper can 
understand it. 


THE NO. 8 PAINS 

This pain is peculiar to the white fibres of the 
nervous system. These white fibres extend to every 
cell from one end of the body to another. They are 
constituted in such a way that they have the power 
to pass a sensation like a streak of lightning, and 
are able to carry impressions with the speed of 
electricity. They are cells containing a nerve fluid 
which is extremely sensitive. 

These cells depend upon Magnesium Phosphate 
for their life, and when they starve they do the 
thing that is perfectly natural to their being. It 
is a part of their instinct to preserve their life, 
and when you fail to supply the food they must 
have in order that they may toil for your well 



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being, then you certainly have no reason to com¬ 
plain if they torment you by the movements they 
induce because of their starving condition. 

The pain takes the manifestation peculiar to this 
type of nerves and is spasmodic, cutting, boring, 
stinging, shooting, cramping, lightning like, and 
it does not matter whether you call that neuralgia 
or what name you give to that pain. It is merely 
a natural manifestation of the nerve fibres demand¬ 
ing food; not ice cream and cake; not candy or 
pie, but the food upon which they depend, the min¬ 
eral base of their being, Magnesium Phosphate, 
which feeds and comforts them. Can there be any¬ 
thing strange in saying that if you supply their 
needs they will cease to torment you and will go 
about their work, happy and satisfied to toil for 
you? 

THE NO. 9 PAINS 

Mineral Food No. 9, which is Sodium Chloride, 
controls the water content of the body. The lesson 
on that mineral in the Mineral Food System of 
Health is a wonderful source of light to any in¬ 
telligent reader. We cannot go into a discussion 
of the general qualities of this mineral, but since 
we are talking on pains we will confine ourselves 
to that one thing. Did you ever have a dry, burn¬ 
ing headache, like those who have hay fever where 
the water is running out of their nose and eyes be¬ 
cause they haven’t the mineral that controls the 
water in the body and at the same time some other 
part of the body is dry? If your head aches and 



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it feels like a dry pain it is because there is not 
enough water there. A dry sensation is the char¬ 
acteristic quality that points out when a pain is 
calling for No. 9. Anyone can understand that, 
and is it any wonder that when you supply this 
need the headache will cease to torment you? 

THE NO. 10 PAINS 

The function of No. 10 in your body, which is 
Sodium Phosphate, is to take care of the acid con¬ 
tent. When this mineral is deficient the acid be¬ 
comes irritating. It is natural to have some acid 
in your body and if this mineral alkali is properly 
supplied there will be just enough acid and it will 
be properly taken care of, but when this mineral 
alkali becomes deficient and the acid collects in 
any part of the body, then there are many signs 
that come to show the need. If these signs are not 
observed and answered after a while a pain call 
must be set up as nature’s way of making the need 
known. It is a part of the Language of Nature. 
It is nature crying for help and trying to tell you 
by signs that are perfectly natural what your body 
needs. 

Did you ever have that peculiar sensation that 
has been given the fantastic name of “heart-burn,” 
which is nothing but an acid pain in the stomach 
and aesophagus? Did you ever have a peculiar 
acid burning in the region of the rectum, when acid 
was passing through the bowels? Women are fre¬ 
quently troubled with this acid discharge passing 



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from the vaginal region. Did you ever see the time 
when you keep blowing your nose and pass out a 
funny sort of a substance until your nose began 
to smart and burn? Or did you ever have an acid 
smarting sensation as urine passed because the 
urine contained too much acid? This is the min¬ 
eral that neutralizes the acid in your body, and 
is it a wonderful thing to say that if you give 
nature what she is asking for by the Language of 
Nature, that is so perfectly natural that every func¬ 
tion and every pain can be perfectly understood, 
that nature will respond in a grateful way and 
stop hurting you. 

THE NO. 11 PAINS 

The function of No. 11, so far as the pain is con¬ 
cerned, is confined to that peculiar part of the 
work of No. 11 which has to do with the secretion 
and proper disposition of bile. If the body is right¬ 
ly supplied with minerals the bile will be formed 
in the cells of the liver and passed through the 
proper ducts to the gall bladder and then out into 
the food canal at just the proper time to do the 
work of digestion. But when things go wrong be¬ 
cause of a deficiency of the minerals in the body, 
then that bile is picked up by the bloodstream and 
it goes out all over the body in a way that is not 
natural and it is poison to the bloodstream, al¬ 
though beneficial when in the right place. 

This No. 11 pain usually occurs in the region of 
the head. It is preceded by biliousness, dizziness. 



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a nasty taste in the mouth and other evidences that 
the bile content of the body is in the wrong place, 
and all of these things are given in the Language 
of Nature to show that your body is calling for No. 
11 to take care of the bile. If you do not respond 
to these needs, and these conditions get worse all 
of the time, at last nature will give a desperate 
warning and there will be burning on the top of 
the head, a surging bursting sensation, and the 
scalp is sensitive because the bile is irritating to 
the nerves. Sometimes it goes down to the base of 
the brain along the back of the head and you are 
tormented until you become sick, and you may 
kill the nerves with a knock-out blow, but that is 
not what nature wants. The call is perfectly plain. 
It is easy to understand. You know what to do 
if you have the Language of Nature. You answer 
the call, and is there any wonder that these con¬ 
ditions stop hurting you when you have done the 
perfectly natural thing made plain to you by a 
Language of Nature that is so simple that anyone 
can understand? 

THE NO. 12 PAINS 

Connective tissue cells are sustained by the 
strength of this mineral, which is called Silica. 
The common name is quartz or flint. It is a very 
heavy mineral and for some reason, not distinctly 
understood, this characteristic heaviness is the 
sign of nature when this mineral is needed. 

There are many signs in the Language of Nature 
showing when No. 12 is needed, and they are all 



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described and easy to understand, and yon have 
these signs day after day for a long time before 
ever a No. 12 pain would come. If you do not 
know those signs and allow those conditions to 
magnify and increase, at last the need becomes 
desperate and must be supplied, and nature through 
that wonderful language that has been given to 
us tries to tell you of the need by setting up a 
pain call that is perfectly characteristic of this 
mineral. 

Did you ever have a heavy pain, pulling with 
lead-like heaviness in the arms, legs, back 
or stomach, or a headache when your head seemed 
so heavy you could not hold it up, but would drop 
to one side or would drop like a lump of lead on 
a pillow? It is different from the sagging, drag¬ 
ging, bearing down pain of No. 1, and though the 
words may seem similar the pain when once you 
learn it is not similar at all. The difficulty is to 
find words to express the sensations that are given. 
The words used here are as near as we can find to 
express the sensation. But when this need is sup¬ 
plied and the Language of Nature is followed is 
it any wonder that such a pain would stop? And 
yet the world suffers on. 

For four years now we have been proclaiming 
this truth. It sounds new and strange, and the 
world is not friendly to new and strange sounds. 
It is laughed at and scorned by some, but there are 
others who love the system because of the benefits 
they have received. Throughout the ages past 



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everything that has been done for pain has been 
wrong and against nature. Thousands and mil¬ 
lions of lives have been sacrificed at the altar of 
false hopes—lives that have paid the penalty for 
the unnatural things that are done. The motive 
has been good, for we have always tried to be merci¬ 
ful, but the pity of it is that the world cannot see 
that this agony does not need to be. No one needs 
to suffer who is willing to follow a perfectly nat¬ 
ural way by giving to the body only that which 
is perfectly natural and cannot possibly do any 
harm, in answer to the calls made plain by the 
Language of Nature. Whenever any unnatural, 
poisonous drug or narcotic is put into the body to 
stop the pain by putting the nerves to sleep, that 
is a harm to the body. But when the body is fed 
what it asked for then that natural method not only 
stops the pain but benefits the body. It is the 
most wonderful thing ever given to the world for 
the surcease of pain. 

The Mineral Food comes to meet the long felt 
need of a suffering race. Take it for your comfort 
and healing. The words of Jesus when he said, 
“If thy son ask for bread, will ye give him a stone, 
and if he asks for a fish will ye sting him with a 
scorpion ?” can be taken over and paraphrased 
now, and we say to you: “If your body asks for 
Mineral Food, will you sting it with a poison?” 



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With headaches and toothaches, we groan and 
complain. 

For the body cries HELP! ’Tis the language of 
pain. 

With gout and rheumatics, and other diseases, 
We pay for the pleasure of eating what pleases. 
Poor mortals we be. We must go with the crowd. 
We must eat what the world eats, though ever so 
loud 

Comes the warning of pain, by the great laws of 
nature, 

Which tells just the need of each suffering creature. 
Then why do you hesitate? Make restitution; 

You never will find such a happy solution 
As this that we offer you—right here and now— 
We are waiting. We offer to show you just how 
You may know; for we teach you a system so plain 
That a child can respond to the language of pain. 
Don’t deprive those you love for one single day longer, 
You will feel better, be better, live and be stronger. 
The relief you desire you may have if you earn it 
For the Language of Nature is yours when you 
learn it. 


The Mineral Food System is Your Way to Health! 
The Language of Nature Shows You the Way! 


Follow That Way! 




FEEDING THE MIND 


CHAPTER 7 

Chemical vibrations of life in the gray-matter 
cells of the brain is the method of making your 
mental powers a part of your existence, just as 
chemical vibrations in any other cells of your body 
make life possible. The gray-matter cells are cells 
of life and require air, water, and food just as other 
cells must live by chemical forces at work. Every 
mental process of thought is, therefore, depend¬ 
ent upon the material substances that make chemi¬ 
cal vibrations possible. 

The bloodstream reaches every cell in your brain. 
It carries the air, water and food that is necessary 
to the life of your brain cell. The mineral upon 
which the life of these cells chiefly depends is 
Potassium Phosphate. Other minerals are found 
in these gray-matter cells, but this mineral is the 
base upon which these cells must do their work. 
They cannot be made without this mineral, and 
they cannot work properly unless they are fed this 
mineral and the other necessary elements vital to 
life’s processes. 

YOUR BRAIN CELLS WORK AND EAT 

Your brain cells must be fed or you will not think 
as you should. Thought is not a spiritual quality 
independent of all material substances as some 
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suppose. If the brain cells did not require the 
necessary elements to their life and the function 
they have been set apart to do, there would be no 
insanity. Insanity is proven by the Mineral Food 
System to be simply a mental condition due to the 
fact that the brain cells are not properly sustained 
by the elements that are necessary for their well¬ 
being. 

Everyone is bothered at times with mental states 
that are not perfectly normal. Someone has said 
that everybody is more or less insane. To say such 
a thing is to stretch the meaning of the word, but 
if you will consider carefully all of the signs de¬ 
scribed below you will see that this thought ex¬ 
pressed, that everyone has occasional periods when 
thought processes are not perfectly normal, is in 
a great measure true. The thoughts of your mind 
are affected by the absence of the natural elements 
that go into the life of your brain cells. 

MINERAL FOOD NO. 1—MENTAL STATES 

Mineral Food No. 1, which is Calcium Fluoride, 
as previously explained, builds elastic fibre tissues, 
and even the brain cells must be sustained by this 
elasticity in the tissues around them, as well as in 
the walls of the cells, although of course in that 
case the elastic fibres are infinitesimally small. 

It has been found, under the Mineral Food Sys¬ 
tem of Health, that there are mental signs which 
indicate the need of No. 1, and it is easy enough 



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for you to investigate and prove for yourself when 
some of these signs come to you that this is so, 
for if you will respond to these mental conditions, 
as shown in your Language of Nature, you will 
find that those conditions come under control by 
the use of Mineral Food No. 1, and the peculiar 
mental attitudes which torment you at times are 
really due to a deficiency of necessary mineral ele¬ 
ments. 

People who are deficient in Mineral Food No. 1 
have imaginary fears and they think their fears are 
real. They sometimes think that someone is try¬ 
ing to harm them. That is one peculiar mental 
state frequently found in people who are old and 
the brain cells are beginning to break down, and 
the No. 1 conditions are not only affecting the 
thought processes but are general all over the body. 
It has often been noticed that some old persons 
think their loved ones are planning to do away 
with them. Be the notion ever so false, the mental 
state seems vividly real, and it is a sign given in 
the Language of Nature as a call of the body for 
No. 1. 

Business men who are deficient in No. 1 fear 
financial ruin. The newspapers occasionally bring 
to the world the deplorable message that some man 
went to his office, or his place of business, and 
committed suicide and left a note tha;t he was 
ruined. His friends were surprised, for they had 
no idea he was as hard pressed as that, and when 
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thing is all right. This is a sign in the Language 
of Nature, and if that man had known of this sys¬ 
tem and had supplied his body with what that sign 
called for he would have found himself more hope¬ 
ful. If you will watch your own life you will 
see that there are times when you see things in 
that way, only not so vividly perhaps, and you can 
also prove that these signs leave you when the 
need is properly supplied. 

Women have been known to commit suicide be¬ 
cause they thought they were ruined socially. Their 
social life was the ambition of their lives and they 
thought it was gone, but it was an imaginary fear, 
for their friends all said that they were never so 
popular and the fear was without foundation. 

Sometimes the Language of Nature transmits a 
need of No. 1 in the dreams that come to you dur¬ 
ing the sleeping hours of the night when you wake 
up with a dream of impending danger and you had 
the feeling in your dream that everything was go¬ 
ing wrong. The Language of Nature tells you 
that such an experience is a call of your body for 
No. 1. All of these signs are due to the fact that 
the brain cells are not able to function properly 
and the vibrations of life going on there are not 
normal because of a sagging condition of the deli¬ 
cate tissue involved. There is no guesswork about 
this, for if you ever find your thoughts tending 
to run this way you can prove this out by eating 
Mineral Food No. 1. You will notice these mental 
conditions will then disappear. 



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MINERAL FOOD NO. 2—MENTAL STATES 

The function of Mineral Food No. 2 in the body, 
so far as affecting the brain is concerned, is that 
the albuminoids are under the control of this 
mineral and there must be a constant supply of the 
albumen foods passing to the brain cells as well as 
to all other cells of the body. When those cells 
are deprived of the albumen they need, the vibra¬ 
tions of life are interfered with and there is a 
peculiar mental state that is due to this need for 
albumen. 

Did you ever heave a deep sigh when there was 
nothing to sigh about? That condition is because 
the albumen is not present and the vibrations of 
life taking place in the brain cells are not just 
right. Another sign of this need is irritability and 
especially in the case of children. And if you will 
look in other parts of your body you will see that 
there are other calls for this same mineral. An 
irritable child is one that is needing No. 2, and no 
doubt that call is being made manifest in many 
different parts of the body. If it had been supplied 
when first it appeared the child would have ceased 
to trouble its mother and would have been much 
more easily satisfied and much happier. 

Without discussing all of the details the follow¬ 
ing mental signs for No. 2 will be given, all of 
which are due to the need of albumen in the brain 
cells, and the albumen cannot get there without 
No. 2. There may be plenty of albumen in the 



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food, for eggs and meat, which are the chief albu¬ 
men foods are plentiful, but no matter how much 
of this food is taken into the stomach it cannot 
reach the brain cells unless it meets its chemical 
affinity, which is Mineral Food No. 2. All of the 
following conditions are due to a deficiency of 
albumen in the cells of the brain causing abnormal 
brain conditions that affect the mental state: In¬ 
ability to concentrate thoughts; the mind wanders; 
a feeling of dullness and stupidity; depressed; a 
desire to be alone; resents consolation; tendency 
to impure sex thoughts; poor memory; young peo¬ 
ple who are hard to awaken in the morning. Some 
of these signs are frequent in almost every person’s 
experience. 

MINERAL FOOD NO. 3—MENTAL STATES 

The function of No. 3 is to remove the waste 
matter after the cell life processes have taken place. 
If that waste matter is permitted to collect in the 
cells, or around the cells, then the chemical vibra¬ 
tions will not be right and the thought processes 
will show peculiar states of mind. If this mineral 
becomes deficient in the brain then the following 
mental states will be noticed: The mood is 
changeable and the individual makes many conflict¬ 
ing decisions; changes his mind; is dissatisfied 
with the house he lives in and moves around seek¬ 
ing satisfaction; makes frequent changes in occu¬ 
pation; changes his habits and cannot stick to 
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changeability. He desires to be let alone at his 
task whatever it may be and is exceedingly impa¬ 
tient when interrupted. 

MINERAL FOOD NO. 4—MENTAL STATES 

No. 4 is the Mineral Food that provides the air 
for the cells. If the air is not transported to the 
cells of the brain, then the life processes in the 
brain cell cannot be what they ought to be, and 
under those circumstances the Language of Nature 
reveals to you just what the problem may be. If 
the oxygen is not properly supplied to keep up the 
spark of life, then the general mental state will 
be indifference to ordinary matters; a loss of cour¬ 
age or feeling of hopelessness; easily annoyed; vio¬ 
lent moods; and in extreme cases extending to 
maniacal moods. And the amazing thing about 
it is, that anyone who suffers these mental difficul¬ 
ties can overcome them by simply providing that 
mineral which carries the oxygen from the lungs 
out to the cells. 

So far as known there are no mental signs pecu¬ 
liar to the deficiency of Mineral Food No. 5. 

MINERAL FOOD NO 6—MENTAL STATES 

Potassium Phosphate, which is Mineral Food No. 
6, is the mineral which really builds gray-matter 
cells and sustains them by making the chemical 
process take the form of thought. Just as Lime 
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ought to be in a bone, so Potassium Phosphate 
makes that reaction what it should be in the brain. 

This mineral is the fundamental substance to 
chemical vibrations in gray-matter cells and can¬ 
not take place without Potassium Phosphate. 

The mental state of this deficiency is peculiar to 
the life of that cell. The range of mental states 
covered by this mineral is greater than any other, 
because it is vital to the life of this cell. When¬ 
ever this mineral is not in the cell the cell life is 
disturbed and the need will be manifested through 
the Language of Nature taught by this Mineral 
Food System of Health by the following signs: 

Moaning in sleep; crying moods; sheds tears 
easily; cross, fretful children; screaming in sleep; 
nervous dread; shrinks from company; bashful; 
pessimistic; blushes easily; despondency; makes 
mountains out of molehills; worries over nothing; 
after-effects from grief; disappointment and anger; 
low muttering delirium; avoids conversation; 
noise is distressing; lack of energy; subject to false 
impressions; gloomy; grasps at imaginary objects; 
subject to hallucinations; haunted by visions of 
the past; hears unreal things at night; hysteria 
from sudden emotion; night terrors; omits letters 
or words in writing or speaking; subject to worry 
and slow of comprehension; subject to whining 
moods. The splendid thing about it is that any¬ 
one suffering from these moods or abnormal men¬ 
tal states will find that he will be relieved and 



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think normally when he has supplied the Min¬ 
eral Food that is being called for by these signs 
given in the Language of Nature. 

So far as we know there are no mental states de¬ 
pendent upon Mineral Food No. 7. 

MINERAL FOOD NO. 8—MENTAL STATES 

This is the mineral that builds the white fibres 
of the nervous system and is extremely important 
in the brain, for it is the white fibres that bring 
all of the brain cells into co-ordination. Every 
brain cell is connected up with every other brain 
cell by means of the white fibres. When this min¬ 
eral is not supplied to the body in the proper form, 
so that it cannot sustain the white fibres, they do 
not do their work properly and they will not trans¬ 
mit sensations from one brain cell to another, or 
they do not match up as they should, and so the 
co-ordination of the cells is disturbed and a state 
of unreliable thought prevails. So No. 8 people 
show mental signs that are peculiar to the diffi¬ 
culty involved in the white fibre cells. They carry 
things about from place to place, picking them up 
and setting them down again; they have lamenting 
moods and sensations that are positively unreal; 
they have illusions or hallucinations; their night¬ 
mares run to extremes, throwing them into states 
of mind that they recover from with great difficulty, 
and instead of having a weeping disposition it be¬ 
comes a sobbing disposition and extravagantly so; 
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sense. The remarkable thing about it is that these 
states of mind will be brought under control by 
simply giving the body this perfectly wonderful 
but simple Mineral Food so that the bloodstream 
can supply these cells with what they need. 

MINERAL FOOD NO. 9—MENTAL STATES 

As has been explained before, water is absolute¬ 
ly essential to normal life in every cell, and it is 
equally so in brain cells. If the water is not prop¬ 
erly supplied, or is not properly distributed, there 
will be abnormal mental states, for the cells can¬ 
not think right unless they are watered right. 
When the water distribution is improper it may 
have a tendency to flood the cells, and when this 
is the case the individual is drowsy and falls asleep 
during conversation or at public meetings. He 
demands much sleep but is not refreshed, and if 
the water becomes deficient and the cells are dry, 
the sign is a highly exalted state of dancing and 
singing or weeping disposition, or no sleep at all. 
Such a person easily loses self-control from anger, 
or becomes talkative, or suffers delirium, or has 
the disposition that is described as hot-tempered. 
The perfectly wonderful thing about it is that any 
individual can overcome these states of mind if 
he will patiently and painstakingly feed his 
body the minerals that the body is calling for and 
build his health so that the cells of life may 
function normally and do their work just as they 
were intended to do. 



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MINERAL FOOD NO. 10—MENTAL STATES 

The work of No. 10 in the body is to take care 
of the acid. If this mineral becomes deficient and 
the acid content around the brain cells has accumu¬ 
lated to the point where it irritates the cells, such 
an individual will have a constant mental state 
that is hot and fiery—a little worse than hot tem¬ 
pered and more constant than the hot tempered 
flashes of No. 9. There is a disposition to be sus¬ 
picious ; scheming or selfishness becomes accented; 
they have a tendency to hot hatred, a fighting, 
quarrelsome, critical, envious or jealous mood; 
frequently they commit suicide and are disheart¬ 
ened with all hope lost, and it is a pitiful thing to 
contemplate how there are folks in all degrees of 
these conditions who are just supposed to have 
a bad, suspicious disposition and who get no sym¬ 
pathy when they should be tenderly and carefully 
cared for. You can prove that these things are so, 
for all of these moods are under the control of 
the mineral elements that enter into the life of 
your brain cells. Such things can be overcome 
for the happiness and prosperity of the individual 
as well as the well-being of the family and the 
community, and yet the world stands off and looks 
on and fails to see the crying and tremendous need 
of Mineral Food in every home. 

MINERAL FOOD NO. 11—MENTAL STATES 

There is very little known about the mental 
states of No. 11. The function of this mineral is 




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to take care of the bilious conditions, and it gov¬ 
erns the problem of secreting bile and carrying it 
the right way in the body. When the bile cir¬ 
culates in the bloodstream it is irritating to the 
brain cells, and about all that is known is that 
such an individual suddenly assumes a dislike for 
music and is aggravated by music, whereas he 
once loved it, and this dislike is especially true 
if the music is of the melancholy strain. It is 
known that anyone who suffers this condition will 
find relief by supplying the mineral that is being 
called for, so that the bile does not become a dis¬ 
turbing element to the brain. 

MINERAL FOOD NO. 12—MENTAL STATES 

The function of this mineral in the body, so far 
as the brain is concerned, and so far as is known, is 
limited to the connective tissue. This fine, thin, 
transparent, but wonderfully tough substance 
around which the cells of the brain are arranged 
becomes the support of those cells and it has a sort 
of a positive and negative quality from the stand¬ 
point of thought. 

All through the Language of Nature on No. 12, 
the sign is one of heaviness—heavy pains, heavy 
discharges and heavy conditions of various sorts, 
and when we come to the mental state it is a sort 
of a heaviness of thought. The mind is dull, and 
slow to think and easily confused. It is the con¬ 
dition that prevails when one steps before the 
public and suffers from what is known as stage 



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fright. The thoughts are heavy. Or when bash¬ 
ful school-boys or girls know what they want to 
say but cannot get their minds to function as they 
stand before the class. No. 12 mental states indi¬ 
cate themselves with those individuals who are ex¬ 
tremely ambitious, but there is a heaviness when 
the time comes to get into action and they cannot 
come up to their ambitious desires. They plan 
to do much, but actually do very little. In extreme 
cases the No. 12 sign is to become disgusted with 
life, and an obstinate disposition is one of the out¬ 
standing signs which is really a form of heaviness 
of mind from the standpoint of conceding anything 
to anybody. 


ALL CAN BE CONTROLLED 

The wonderful thing about it is that when these 
things are observed, and the need is supplied as 
provided for by the Mineral Food System, all of 
these mental states from No. 1 to No. 12 are 
brought under control by patience, perseverance 
and constantly feeding the body up to the state 
of health. 

How long will it take the world to grasp the point 
of the wonders of the Mineral Food System of 
Health? Everywhere I go I meet folks who seem 
to be complacently happy because they have heard 
about Mineral Food. Somebody tells me what a 
wonderful thing happened to his friend, John 
Doe. “He had rheumatism awfully bad and you 



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ought to see him now.” He tried everything but 
nothing worked like Mineral Food. “Say if I ever 
get rheumatism I’ll know exactly what to do,” and 
you can look into the face of that man and see that 
he needs Mineral Food right now. Another is 
waiting to catch tuberculosis but is half sick right 
now, and another is waiting to catch this and an¬ 
other that, and all of them need Mineral Food right 
now—today. 

Children are driven away from home because 
of the unbearable disposition of some parent, all 
because of a need of Mineral Food. Homes are 
broken up and the divorce court dockets are clogged 
with cases because of misunderstandings that be¬ 
gan with mental states that were unreal for the 
want of Mineral Food. Men and women lose their 
positions and folks say they have the devil in them 
and no one can get along with them. There isn’t 
a single individual in all of civilization who is 
kidding himself along with the idea that he is 
perfectly well because he eats three times a day 
and sleeps fairly good, works as much as his con¬ 
science will allow him to work and fancies that he 
is well, but that needs Mineral Food. 


A NEW WORLD MIND 

What a wonderful thing it would be if a new 
mental scope could come to men and women. The 
world would be transformed. Society would live 
a new life. Think what it would mean to elimi- 



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nate the scheming, suspicion, jealousy and the 
envy that is tormenting civilization today. Men’s 
hearts are failing them everywhere. The fear of 
the banker is disturbing business. The fear of 
the politician has forced him to follow policy in¬ 
stead of principle. Business men become “hard 
boiled” because of fear. You are moved by your 
fears and I am moved by mine, and fear is always 
destructive to trust, confidence and fellowship. In 
the midst of it all give your brain cells a chance 
to think straight, so that your eyes will see and 
your ears will hear things as they really are. 

There are business men who used to be brilliant, 
agreeable and successful, but who lately have 
changed so that their friends can hardly endure 
them, and can’t understand what has come over 
them and such men are failing in business and 
their families are in distress about it. 

BIG ISSUES INVOLVED 

Ten years ago there was a sick man in Europe 
and he did not know he was sick, but he was sub¬ 
ject to a mental state that was far from insanity, 
but was not right. He was suspicious, jealous, 
envious, and the heat of his temper was kept up 
to a boiling point by the acids tormenting his 
gray-matter cells for years. He surrounded him¬ 
self with men of like moods, as everyone seeks the 
company of congenial spirits, and this man with 
an acid brain happened to have at his command 
the greatest military organization in the world. 



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His generals, colonels, captains, lieutenants, 
sergeants, and corporals were to him like the kings, 
queens, castle, knights, bishops and pawns of the 
game of chess, and the world was his chess board. 
The thing that happened with a man of such power 
in such a state of mind was the most natural thing 
in the world. The assassination of an Austrian 
duke did not cause the war, it only became this 
man’s opportunity to fulfill his state of mind. The 
evil conspiracies of the diplomats of Europe did 
not cause the war. Questionable diplomatic con¬ 
versations no doubt prevailed because diplomats 
were filled with fears, for all of official Europe 
knew full well that the mind of one man who had 
the power was rapidly forcing the issue. Diplo¬ 
mats moved by such fears could not keep them¬ 
selves apart in times of scheming conspiracies. 

The great world war had to come for it was an 
acid state of mind in one man’s brain who had the 
power. The red hot acid fire of deep seated hatred 
has been burning ever since and the civilization of 
Europe is on the verge of a complete collapse. When 
the acid fires of envy, selfishness, malice and jeal¬ 
ousy, begin to die down a spark from any source 
explodes the mental states of suspicion and hatred 
that has never yet been confined, but taints the 
atmosphere of the civilized world when once pro¬ 
moted by such a high powered exponent as gripped 
the world with his claws ten years ago. 

The one man who had this great power was not 
the only man who had that acid mind. There were 



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multitudes like him who did not have that power, 
and who would do today what he did then if they 
had the power in the hands of one man today to 
do it. The pity of it is that the man who had the 
power ten years ago happened to be one of those 
who had the mental state of a man sick with acid. 

The criminals of our day are men with the acid 
state of mind. The scheming grafters are acid 
mental states at work. And this mental state is 
contagious. It floats in the air and all of those 
who happen to be either slightly or violently taint¬ 
ed that way are seized upon by this spirit that has 
broken loose and their acid mental states become 
accented and crime waves break loose and graft 
appears everywhere and suspicion becomes almost 
universal. 

Unnatural demineralized food all over the world . 
is breaking down the health and the morals of 
civilization and the Mineral Food System of Health 
explains the fundamental problems of the world. 

THE WORLD A DIVINE ORDER 

The Mineral Food movement comes to the world 
in the midst of all of this tragedy. It did not just 
happen so. I firmly believe that this Mineral Food 
movement is a part of the great program of the 
providential governing power of the Infinite Mind. 
The world does not run itself. Men do not control 
the affairs of this world as much as they think 
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and takes care of His own. Columbus discovered 
the world at just the right time to make possible 
the building of the Land of Freedom. But it did 
not just happen to be so. Steam power, electricity, 
wireless discoveries and all other great forward 
steps came when the world was ready and needing 
and did not come by accident. 

In that age when the world reaches out with 
more rapid strides than ever before in the sensa¬ 
tional effort to tickle the taste of a sophisticated 
society with a food that is so unnatural and de¬ 
mineralized so seriously that the fires of life in 
the human race are burning in all ways against 
health, happiness, peace, love, confidence and real 
abiding prosperity, in that very period the wisdom 
of the All-Good sets in motion the saving force. 

A foreknowledge of it all in the Infinite Mind 
started the knowledge trickling down through the 
minds of great men, mentioned in the opening 
pages of this book. Prophetic foresight was pav¬ 
ing the way. It was smothered and fought back, 
but it would not stay put down. But as the world 
catches fire with its weight of woe, this Mineral 
Food movement breaks forth again. Now it goes 
to the general public. Now it is on trial. Now the 
great common people hear the call. Now it is prov¬ 
ing itself out. It is gaining and spreading and 
reaching all who have eyes to see the great hope and 
ears to hear the tender still small voice of God. 
It reaches you. 



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When you have proved it you are filled with 
enthusiasm but you little realize as yet the great 
program you are helping to fulfill. The world 
needs men and women who will be strong in body 
and in mind for such only can be strong and loyal 
in heart. Your boys and girls and mine are those 
to be saved out of the great masses of a civiliza¬ 
tion headed for the rocks of disaster, and such are 
the ways of the Infinite Creator. 

WAITING TO “CATCH” SOMETHING 

And yet this Mineral Food System of Health is 
supposed to be a thing that cures rheumatism, “T. 
B.”, or something of the kind. It is wonderful if 
it does that, and I am happy because of those vic¬ 
tories, but when I stop to think of the tremendous 
possibilities that await all of those who will build 
up their health and learn to supply all of their 
needs and go out and look the world in the face 
and see things straight that they look at, and think 
things straight that they think about and shake 
hands with their fellow men without the evil fears 
that are due to poor health problems, then it seems 
to me we are giving to the world and promoting 
today the biggest proposition on earth. It is a tre¬ 
mendous need and you can prove it now. 

In this business I have seen times when men 
have been moved by all of these mental states. 
They have attempted to fight me and I have been 
able by reason of my knowledge of these things to 
move on without fear. I would not be without this 



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great Mineral Food System for any consideration. 
I, therefore, consider it my solemn duty to push 
it with all my strength except to never force it on 
anyone against his will. 

BE ONE OF THE ELECT 

It is the will of the Infinite One to save the elect, 
the choice, the chosen from out the rank and file 
of God’s great common people. They are those 
who are honest at heart and open in mind and 
who are loyal and true. This Mineral Food move¬ 
ment appeals to such people. The work goes forth 
with a sustaining power that is marvelous and it 
is reaching out and sifting the wheat from the chaff. 
Men and women who are good and true are reach¬ 
ing out for it and taking it and it is building them 
up and making them better. These are the ways 
of the Infinite One, whose ways are past finding 
out, and the thing that is taking place is wonderful 
and hard to understand only because it is Infinite. 
You are honored, therefore, with the opportunity 
to stop and consider and then prove it for your¬ 
self. 


The Mineral Food System is Your Way to Health! 
The Language of Nature Shows You the Way! 


Follow That Way! 



NERVES 


CHAPTER 8. 

When we come to the subject of nerves we enter 
the most sacred precincts of life. It is here that 
you really live. All of the elements that enter into 
your real life of happiness, sorrow, success and dis¬ 
tress, hang upon your nervous system. 

Your nervous system is the most compelling of 
all of your health problems whether your problems 
are classed as nervous problems or not. 

THE WORLD ON ITS NERVES 

The world is living upon its nerves. The politi¬ 
cal lines of the entire world hang in the balance 
because of nerves. Men’s hearts are failing them 
for fear in the make-up of the most distressing 
problems of the world because of nerves. As the 
nations meet in contact with one another they 
spring back and shake their fists, watching each 
other with the utmost fear because of nerves. 

Business men meet one another on nerves, and 
it is nerves that win. In social relations men and 
women meet and make all of their social contact 
by playing on the nervous system. If that contact 
is happy and pleasant the reaction is through the 
nervous system, and if it is miserable and heart- 


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breaking it is the same thing. The home life de¬ 
pends on the nerves of the father and mother and 
every one of the children. Any member of any 
home can throw the nerves of the entire group into 
spasms of agony. 

Every individual, as he goes out to compete for 
existence, finds that all of the contacts he makes 
in whatever activities he may be engaged are con¬ 
tacts of influences that play upon his nerves. On 
the one hand he hears the toot of the horn and 
he must jump and be quick about it or his life 
is in danger. He dodges the street car, and just 
then he meets someone who puts a business propo¬ 
sition to him and that is a demand upon his nerves. 
A little further on someone does something or says 
something that is an irritation to his nerves and 
something else happens that is pleasant to him. 
Everything that happens is a play upon his nerves. 

You are only one of the millions who are out in 
the world struggling for your place. Everything 
you see and hear and do, and everything that comes 
to your conscious existence enters into the constant 
stream of nerve currents that plays upon your 
inner life, and all of your success in life depends 
upon how you react to all of these ever changing, 
sometimes aggravating, sometimes peaceful, nerve 
influences about your own personality. The only 
control you have over these forces is the way you 
control yourself in the midst of it all. 

The success and the happiness of your life de¬ 
pends upon what you do as you attempt to control 



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yourself in the midst of these multitudinous in¬ 
fluences. 


YOUR HIGHER POWERS 

The chief reason why everything that takes place 
in your life is a play upon your nervous system is 
that you belong to a class in the animal kingdom 
that is distinct from all others in the fact that you 
are made up to live on your nerves. That is why 
man is the highest of all creation. 

The jack rabbit is a swift running animal. The 
kangaroo is a long jumping animal. The giraffe 
is a long-necked animal. The elephant has its nose 
and its powerful strength. One animal is built to 
fight and another to run. One animal lives the 
life of peace and another the life of war. One ani¬ 
mal is characterized by reason of his strength and 
another by his keen ears or highly developed sense 
of smell. The human being made and created after 
the image of God is the animal that lives and moves, 
succeeds or fails and has his being by reason of 
his nervous system. 

Experience has taught you that your highest 
success in life depends upon the way you make your 
decisions as you guide yourself along through the 
maze of snares and pitfalls that are set for every¬ 
one, and that is the reason you went to school, and 
human experience has taught you that education 
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This conclusion has become universal and the 
world is overwhelmingly convinced that the biggest 
and most important thing in the life of every child 
is to be well trained mentally for this great com¬ 
petitive race, and this means to make the nerves 
swift and strong and long enough to reach to the 
limit. 


NOT BY MIGHT OR STRENGTH 

You cannot succeed in these days by the strength 
of your arm or the speed of your legs. Your high¬ 
est form of success, whether you work with a shovel 
or with a pen, depends upon the intelligence you 
are able to put behind your tools. At the begin¬ 
ning of each day the whole human race goes to 
work in the great field of finding out who has the 
life. Whether you like to admit it or not, whether 
best wit. You are in that great race, and you 
cannot get out of it, and it is a Marathon race for 
you are proud of the fact or not does not matter 
one bit so far as the conclusion is concerned. It 
is human experience and you prove it each day. 

HOW NERVES WORK 

The beginning of all nerve sensations is that 
form of nerves which we call sensory nerves. 
These are the nerves that touch the eye, the nose, 
the ear, the mouth and the finger tips, and it is 
upon these nerves that you depend for all of the 
knowledge you have obtained. From the begin¬ 
ning of your life you have been getting sensations 



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from your eyes, your ears, your mouth, your nose 
and through your fingers, and all of the things you 
see, hear, taste, smell and touch have enabled you 
to accommodate yourself to the multiplicity of sen¬ 
sations constantly streaming into your brain cells. 
By means of these experiences multiplied, divided, 
added and subtracted—all of them associated and 
brought together—you have developed a system of 
stored up judgment and by this means you have 
learned to do things habitually without thinking 
and by this means you also have learned to think 
out the things that need to be thought out by 
drawing upon your past experiences which will 
enable you to render judgment. This work takes 
place in the gray-matter cells of your body. 

After the judgments are rendered another sys¬ 
tem of nerves known as motor nerves conveys the 
judgment of the gray-matter cells of the brain to 
the muscular cells of action, and this is the way 
you live, move and have your being. The things 
you do, the things you say, the things you write, 
and all of the acts of your life become the terminal 
ends of the sensations that start by the things you 
see, hear, taste, smell and feel. This is the thing 
that makes your life what it is, and the judgment 
you use is the means by which you have developed 
your character and that becomes the personality 
which is you, which is known to many and loved 
by some and perhaps despised by a few. 

The development of nerves is your chief duty, 
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aspiration. A study of the subject of nerves with¬ 
out keeping all of these things in mind is impos¬ 
sible from the standpoint of reaching the highest 
and most profitable conclusion. It is the most won¬ 
derful subject of all. When I say it is sacred 
ground I fail to say half enough, because language 
fails and the mind itself is hardly capable of con¬ 
ceiving the tremendous issues involved with all of 
us as we build a nervous system. 

IMPORTANT DECISIONS 

The decisions you form are good or bad in ac¬ 
cordance with the reaction you make to the sensa¬ 
tions that come into your body from your outside 
environment. The judgments you form depend 
upon which class of influences coming into your 
brain are most habitually and gratefully received 
and used in actions and sensations that pass out 
from the brain. For these sensations passing out 
become the habitual rule or pathway by which 
judgment fixes itself and establishes your charac¬ 
ter and stores up that way of life which determines 
your future personality of an eternal spiritual 
force, the immortal you that never dies. No more 
scientific statement can be found than the state¬ 
ment of an ancient spiritual sage when he said, “It 
is not the things that enter the body that defile 
the body, but that which cometh out of the body is 
the thing that defiles the body.” It is not what 
you see and hear that spoils your life. If you see 
and hear evil and resist it you are left untouched. 



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But if you choose to react to evil instead of the 
good, and learn to long for evil instead of good, 
this makes evil predominate and it is all done, 
either good or evil, through the nervous system. 

No one can avoid developing his nerves in some 
way or other until he dies. No one can live in this 
world in the midst of all of these environments and 
conflicting influences without being touched upon 
and impressed. That is the reason we need books 
and papers and churches. The hunger and thirst 
of the human family for sensations is the thing 
that makes possible all of the influences that are 
brought about in the world, whether those influ¬ 
ences are good or bad. The longer you live the 
more you store up in your nerves and from the 
beginning of your life as a babe to the end of your 
life in old age it is a constant effort to hold your 
place and the strain is never ended until the heart 
ceases to beat and until the breath of air you 
breathe ceases to touch off the spark of life. 

What a helpless creature an individual would be 
without nerves. What a pitiful spectacle to look 
upon when you see the insane or the feeble minded. 
Yet that is to look upon only a part of the great 
nervous system, for the insane and the feeble 
minded still have some brain and nerve tissue. If 
it were not for their nervous system their heart 
would not beat and their food could not digest and 
none of the natural physical functions of the body 
could be performed. Every cell in all of your body 
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the most wonderful thing ever created that has 
yet come within the knowledge of man, which is 
the nervous system. 

You belong to that class of animals that has 
the highest developed nervous system in nature, 
and you must be aware of the fact without any 
long dissertation to prove that any form of life 
given over to the problem of developing such a keen 
and wonderful intensity of nerves to the extent 
that it shall exceed the efficiency of all of the rest 
of the body, certainly will present something of 
strain and stress and struggle that will involve 
the matter of the general health of body. Only 
the strong can stand it. The weak must perish. 

EACH AGE DEVELOPS 

And when you stop to think that this has been 
going on for generation after generation; that 
your forefathers, clear back to the beginning of 
the race, have been engaged in the same great 
contest and have been passing their development on 
from one generation to another; that each de¬ 
velopment to higher standards increases the inten¬ 
sity of the struggle for each new generation which 
makes more intense demands upon each generation 
that follows, then you begin to see that this prob¬ 
lem multiplies itself as each new civilization de¬ 
velops. 

If you are a middle aged man or woman you 
know that the educational requirements of the 



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present generation are in excess of those required 
when you were a child, and who knows what the 
requirements of the coming generation will be? If 
you are an individual of adult life you know that 
the pace that is set for you to keep up with, which 
is a demand upon your nerves, is tremendously in¬ 
creased over that of those who were living when 
your memory begins. 

And now having set the problem before us from 
the standpoint of its highest and holiest phase and 
its spiritual nature, let us look at the problem for 
a minute from the standpoint of its physiological 
or material requirements. 

WHAT MAKES NERVES 

Nerves do not just happen to be. Thought power 
or judgment is not simply pure spirit without a 
material base. It is not physically possible to de¬ 
velop any thinking power without cell life. Your 
sensory nerves that bring you in contact with your 
environment are made up of air and albumen and 
their mineral base with a few other substances of 
lesser importance involved. Your gray-matter 
cells, where judgments are formed which receive 
the sensation from the sensory nerves, are made 
by air coming in contact with albumen and other 
substances including the mineral base. 

You cannot receive a sensation unless these ele¬ 
ments are present. The motor nerves, which carry 
from the gray-matter cells the judgments that are 



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formed, are built up by air, albumen and the min¬ 
eral base and some other substances coming to¬ 
gether to form that cell under the laws of life. It 
is just as important for your brain and nerve cells 
to be fed the material substances they must have 
to do their work as it is for your muscles to be fed 
that they may do their proper work. 

THE MINERAL BASE OF THOUGHT 

A process of thought is a process that takes place 
in a brain cell by reason of the meeting of the 
elements necessary in that cell for thought func¬ 
tion. A brain cell is a cell that has been set aside to 
do a special work and has been made to specialize 
on the function of sensibility, or sensation. You 
may have the same kind of a cell in your stomach, 
so far as the form is concerned, which functions 
there to do the work of digestion. All cells in the 
body are more or less alike, except that each class 
specializes on one duty that is peculiar to its job. 
The little one-celled animal that lives all by itself, 
and has no brain or stomach, has the function in 
a mild degree that you have in your brain, and it 
has the function in a mild degree that you have in 
your stomach, and your brain and your stomach 
may be similar cells, but each has been required 
to specialize. 

Your brain cell, therefore, is a cell with the qual¬ 
ity of irritability that is known to be a quality 
in even the little one-celled animals, such as the 
amoeba and paramaecium. We call it irritability 



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or we might call it the sensitive quality which 
makes the little one-celled animal sensitive to its 
environment. 

Your brain cells are cells of life similar in many 
ways, only that this sensibility, or irritability, in 
the one-celled animal is made the chief duty of the 
cell when it becomes a brain cell. One quality of 
all cell-life (sensibility) becomes the quality your 
brain cells are required to develop to the highest 
possibility. You are different from lower forms 
of animal life because your brain cells have at¬ 
tained a higher degree of specialization on sensi¬ 
bility than any other form of life. 

The more you read, the more you think, the more 
experience you have, the more games you played 
when you were a child, the more tasks you assumed 
when you were an adult, the more active your life 
becomes, the better trained these nerves become, 
and the deeper the pathways of habits fix them¬ 
selves for your well-being if those habits are good, 
and for your sorrow and distress if those habits are 
bad. 


YOU ARE CHASED ALONG 

Every individual you meet is engaged in the 
same great game of never-ending experience by 
which he is developing his nerves, and the more 
the whole world develops nerves the keener the com¬ 
petition becomes to you, and, therefore, the more 
nerve force you must develop. So the race goes on, 



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and it becomes a great Marathon race, lasting for 
life. All human beings are engaged in the great en¬ 
durance contest. The better your nerves the more 
successful you will be until others develop better 
nerves than yours. The more service you are able 
to render the more money you will make until 
others come along who have developed more effi¬ 
ciency in nerves than you have. Your nerves are 
taxed to their utmost capacity. 

A THRILLING CONTEST 

It is a thrilling contest which means a world for 
weal or for woe to you. You are intensely interest¬ 
ed and you must not fail, and all of this requires 
that your nerves must be well fed. If they are not 
fed you fail. It may be a slow failure and you 
may not notice it for awhile and you may feel like 
blaming somebody else for your failure. Some¬ 
times you think it is because you haven’t a pull 
when everything goes wrong, so that even the no¬ 
tions you have about it go wrong, but just the same 
you are in the contest and you cannot get out of 
it, for life is just that kind of a contest. The bet¬ 
ter your nerves are fed the better they can serve 
you, and the better they can serve you the happier 
you are, and the poorer they are fed the more 
trouble they will make and the trouble that they 
may make you is the pitiful thing that you want 
to avoid. 

The mineral base which makes the white fibres 
and which are the sensory or motor nerves, is Mag- 




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nesium Phosphate. You go to the table three times 
a day and you eat demineralized food, then go 
out into the great Marathon race and pull upon 
that demineralized food for all it is worth and you 
use your will power to compel these forces, for you 
must do certain things to keep up in the race. You 
may not realize it but the very fact that you are 
in a race hurries you on, and you cannot help but 
use your will power, even if you try to avoid it. 
You dare not lay down but you keep on going in 
spite of your discouragements, and you must per¬ 
severe, and so by the force of your will power you 
drive your nerves into action, pulling upon that 
poor food for all of the Magnesium Phosphate it 
can deliver. 

The gray-matter cells, where the judgment is 
formed, are built upon the mineral base of Potas¬ 
sium Phosphate and you use this to the limit, and 
the food you eat three times a day fails to supply 
the need in a natural amount or in a natural form. 

You have no choice but to force yourself on your 
nerves, and when your food fails to bring up the 
substances needed to sustain your activities, then 
nature is required, because you are forcing you* 
nerves, to resort to various methods of supplying 
the need. There are two other Potassium Minerals 
in the body and if the gray-matter cells must have 
Potassium Phosphate, then one or the other of these 
Potassium Minerals, that is functioning in your 
body on another base, a chloride or a sulphur base, 
is taken away from its task and brought in to save 



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these nerves, for by means of your will power you 
are forcing the nerves, and they must be saved for 
the good of the entire organism. 

OTHER DEFICIENCIES CAUSED 

If Potassium Chloride is taken away from its 
duty and the chloride is discharged so that the 
Potassium can be chemically united in the great 
laboratory of the human body with some other 
Phosphate that is found to be there, then this need¬ 
ed mineral is supplied in this round-about way to 
meet this great need for gray-matter cells. But a 
deficiency has been created in this other Potas¬ 
sium that was required to sacrifice, and even if you 
do not break from the standpoint of nervous pros¬ 
tration, you may break down from the standpoint 
of this other deficiency that has been created while 
you forced your nerves. This is how the nerves 
become an important factor even when the disease 
is not classed as a nervous disease. 

The work that this Potassium in a chloride base 
does is to take care of the fibrin content of the 
body which is necessary to build all of the cells of 
the body. If this mineral is extracted for any pur¬ 
pose, or becomes deficient, then the fibrin content 
becomes disturbed or inert and useless and must 
be discharged. If that discharge takes place 
through certain little delicate membranes in the 
intestines, for instance, so that waste matter col- 



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lects and the germs that feed upon that fibrin 
attack it and multiply and an irritation ensues and 
inflammation sets in, then one symptom after an¬ 
other grows and develops and they have taught us 
to call it typhoid fever. So far as the name is con¬ 
cerned, what of it? That name does not tell what 
is needed. This one mineral at fault will not cure 
the body now, for many other needs are bound 
to arise. The law of “The healing power of nature” 
will do wonderful things, and if the disease is ever 
cured it will be the healing power of nature more 
than any other thing that man has ever been able 
to devise that does it. 

If that fibrin passes out in some other way, such 
as through the lungs, pneumonia results. Tomor¬ 
row morning you may pick up the newspaper and 
read about the death of some prominent man who 
has been building his nerves. He has made good 
in society; he has prospered in business; he has 
been honest in his dealing; he won the confidence 
of the community and has been hard at work mak¬ 
ing good all his life, but at the very prime of life, 
when his associates were beginning to appreciate 
him the most and planned on using him in a bigger 
way for the most noble work of the community, 
this poor fellow broke down, was attacked by some 
disease and was taken away in the most productive 
period of his life. He forced his nerves until the 
body could not stand the strain. No matter what 
disease was named on the death certificate, it was 



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this demand of nerve energy not properly support¬ 
ed by his food, that caused this premature death. 

But you say the disease was not a nervous dis¬ 
ease. So far as the name given to the disease by 
man that may be true, but because he had driven 
himself by will-power so strong and had become 
so intense in developing his nervous system, which 
was his great capability, recognized in business, 
and because as he saw others pressing forward, he 
sought to press forward too, that man living on 
his nerves had pulled down the general vitality of 
his body and he died of some other disease not sup¬ 
posed to be related to nerves at all. And yet, the 
nerves are doing just that very thing to the whole 
wide world today and perhaps to you. 

PHYSICAL BREAKDOWN FROM NERVE STRAIN 

There are other diseases that are brought about 
by reason of this law of substitution, under the 
splendid law of the healing power of nature, and 
you can look back over the past and call to mind 
boys and girls who were especially brilliant in 
school and who developed their nerves splendidly 
and easily, but who could not endure the strain 
on their physical being and became victims of dis¬ 
ease and early death. If you will begin to observe 
you can see evidence everywhere that the develop¬ 
ment of brain power is being done at the expense 
and the vitality of the physical well-being and is 
breaking down the general health of the world. Yet 
it need not be, if folks knew how to provide the nec- 



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essary elements that the nerves are calling for so 
that the rest of the body would not be placed under 
this strain by the law of substitution and the heal¬ 
ing power of nature. 

HUMAN WRECKAGE 

There are homes being wrecked and lives are 
lost, all for the want of the mineral that feeds the 
nerves. There are national aspirations that are 
being jeopardized. The general welfare of the 
world is hanging in the balance of nerves. There 
are epidemics waiting to come which will wipe out 
the lives of thousands who fall by the wayside, all 
because of the deficiencies that arise in the body 
because of this intense specialization on nerves. 
And there is no way to stop it, for the race is on 
and it is a race of life. It is the Marathon race 
of intense specialization, and yet men and women 
everywhere fail to realize the fact that they are 
living under a condition which makes the great 
problem of life a problem of the survival of the 
fittest, and the real, intense anxiety of it all begins 
with nerves. 

Those who resist the intensity of this nerve 
struggle, and are content to assume a more humble 
place in life, are among those who live the longest 
because they do not become so intensely interested 
in the vital issue of success. 

There are others who are especially endowed 
with more than the average strength because per- 



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haps their immediate fore-fathers, their parents 
or grandparents, did not so intensely specialize 
on the nerves, or lived the more active physical 
life, or a more natural life, and they came into the 
world with a peculiar physical endowment that 
enables them to stand the strain. 

Such an individual may have a better digestive 
tract than the average and is able to digest more 
food and, therefore, gets more minerals to meet 
these needs. This does not mean that all who eat 
heavily are better off in this contest. Many eat 
too much. It is not the amount of food you eat 
that determines how much you get back to the 
cells. It is the ability you have to digest food that 
determines this factor of your well-being. Your 
food is no good to you until it reaches your cells 
where life takes place. Your ability to digest and 
assimilate enough food to get enough minerals out 
of a demineralized food determines your well-be¬ 
ing. Some individuals are peculiarly fitted to do 
this which accounts for their strength on the same 
kind of food that others are not able to thrive upon. 

But those who are not so well fitted from that 
standpoint suffer from mal-nutrition. They may 
be brilliant from the standpoint of their nerves, 
but they are not able to maintain physical strength 
by consuming a large amount of food in such a way 
as to get the good out of that food. Such individ¬ 
uals are those who pass off in premature death and 
these become the victims of the great law of the 
survival of the fittest, under our unnatural demin- 



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eralized food system. The Mineral Food System is 
the greatest help ever offered this suffering world 
for any and all of these needs. 

Then there are those who have strong bodies but 
who know no limit to the great Marathon contest. 
They cannot be satisfied with any limit. They are 
so intensely active; they stay with it forever; they 
plan for the next day while others sleep; they go 
the limit all day long; and they succeed in a mar¬ 
velous way for a time, not by the strength they 
manifest in their arms, their legs or their backs, 
but by the intensity with which they have applied 
their wits to their tasks. They are wonderful 
creatures and we admit their attainments and they 
go strong for awhile, but after a time the drain 
becomes so great on the system that the minerals 
are cancelled out to substitute for each other, caus¬ 
ing first one deficiency and then another, until 
after awhile some part fails and these naturally 
strong individuals go down also. They were splen¬ 
didly fit from the standpoint of nerves, wonderfully 
fit from the standpoint of the high specialization in 
the highest art of man in the holy of holies of 
man’s noblest attainment, and yet they go down 
because, by sheer pluck and will power, they have 
pulled upon their vitality until the body could 
not stand the strain. 

THE TEST OF CHILDHOOD 

One of the most pathetic phases of this subject 
arises in the life of our children. On the first of 



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September of each year the children enter this great 
Marathon race in their school life. 

Every parent wants his child to be smart, and 
we’re proud of them if they are smart. We do 
everything we can to encourage them to be bril¬ 
liant, which demands that they specialize on their 
nerves. We are proud of them just to the extent 
that they succeed in this, and yet, when you come 
to see the problem in the right way it is dangerous 
for any child to be smart, or to work hard in 
school, or to do the best he can do in this way. If 
your child does not have the help of bringing into 
the body that which is needed for the upbuilding 
and maintaining of the body, the Mineral Food 
way, then that child is running the risk of life in 
building a brilliant, intellectual life. 

THE BUSINESS MAN TESTED 

The man in business, spurred on by the compe¬ 
tition of his fellows, enthusiastic in the problem 
of providing well for his family, is running the 
risk of his life when he enters that contest with 
his whole heart, mind and soul, unless he knows 
how to feed those brain cells all of the things re¬ 
quired the Mineral Food way. The mother of the 
home in the distressing tasks of home life needs 
food for her nerves. The business woman is in the 
great competitive field of life. She needs food for 
her nerves, and her powers of endurance depend 
upon how well these needs are supplied the Mineral 
Food way. 



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A MESSAGE OF HOPE 

The Mineral Food System is a message of hope. 
It is a message for you. You should be grateful 
that you have come into the way of finding out one 
of the most important problems of your life, and 
that is the problem of how to maintain your physi¬ 
cal life while you “carry on” this tremendous drain 
on your nerve energy. 

It is impossible for you to do any more for your 
loved ones, or your friends, than to take to them 
the great message we bring. It is a message of 
life and hope. It is a message that makes life and 
success a safe pursuit. 

The thing that forces me on in this great work 
is the realization that the heartache of the world 
is due to the fact that the world is perishing for 
the want of this knowledge. 

The task of promoting such a new thing as this 
is a most difficult, perplexing and discouraging 
task, because it sounds so new and strange. The 
world seems to prefer to be left alone. But my 
great recompense is a grateful people among those 
who prove that these things are so. 

OPPORTUNITY 

Do you want to reach out and grasp your highest 
possibilities? Your nerve forces are your vital 
elements for success. You strive for your place in 
the sun and your nerve force is your limit of op- 



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portunity. Prove out your possibilities by sus¬ 
taining that force in the natural way. 

Do not neglect this opportunity. The Language 
of Nature is your guide. Do not think that you are 
wasting time while you are working on this prob¬ 
lem. Do not complain that you haven’t time. You 
never made a better investment of time in your life 
than the time it will take for you to work out this 
Mineral Food System of Health. When you have 
proven it you will have lost some of the most dis¬ 
tressing fears that torment you and you will see 
your power gradually increasing. It is simple and 
easy to do. 

All you need to do is to live with the Language 
of Nature and use it until it becomes second nature 
to you. Then you will find yourself among the 
strong ones of the earth, and you will bless the 
day when the Mineral Food System of Health 
reached you and commanded your attention. 


The Mineral Food System is Your Way to Health! 
The Language of Nature Shows You the Way! 
Follow That Way! 



FEVERS, EPIDEMICS AND 
ACUTE DISEASES 

CHAPTER 9 

To sit at the bedside of some loved one watching 
the progress of a raging high fever with the breath¬ 
ing labored and hard, is an anxious and agonizing 
experience. There is a feeling of helplessness and 
hopelessness as the case grows worse, with the dis¬ 
tress more marked and all conditions ascending to 
the climax of a life in danger. Loving hearts be¬ 
come panic-stricken and professional help is sum¬ 
moned with feverish haste. 

To take advantage of such an emergency for the 
promotion of personal gain becomes a most deplor¬ 
able system of unprincipled graft. It would be 
worse than folly to urge upon anyone any method 
or system at such a time that was not based on 
the soundest principles of natural law, and the as¬ 
surance that the methods involved had every prom¬ 
ise of victory. 

It took me many months and years of successful 
proving before I could conscientiously say the 
things that I am about to say. I would not say 
these things at this time if I did not have in the 
background of my personal experience such a vol¬ 
ume of evidence to sustain these perfectly logical 
conclusions. 


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All of these critical and dangerous experiences 
have been clouded with mystery for ages in the 
past, and methods have been followed that seem to 
be perfectly reasonable by men who were honestly 
trying to save life. No one’s motives are to be 
impugned even though it shall appear with good 
reason that mistakes of the most serious nature 
have been made. The first thing that I shall dis¬ 
cuss is the subject of fevers, and then the 
sweeping epidemics that pass over the country, 
where fevers are involved, all of which are acute 
conditions, and in which conditions the Mineral 
Food System stands pre-eminent, giving its best 
and most convincing evidence of rapid perform¬ 
ance. 


THE BREATH OF LIFE 

The outstanding necessity of the body in its 
function of life in the cell is the supply of oxygen. 
Oxidization can almost be offered as a synonym 
of life. The cell must have oxygen. A perfect 
method of providing that oxygen has been worked 
out in the great laboratory of the Infinite Creator 
and there is no more correct way than the natural 
way. The natural way is a method of keeping up 
the chemical vibrations of life in the cells. 

Oxygen is carried in the air and there is plenty 
of air everywhere, and the lungs are filled with air 
whenever the muscles of the chest expand and open 
up the air pockets of the lungs so that the outside 
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the lungs. The oxygen is then ready for the blood¬ 
stream to pick up and carry it to every one of the 
multitudes of billions of cells where life goes on. 

The red blood cells perform this function, but 
they do not have mouths to open up and swallow 
the air. The natural method of transporting this 
air is a chemical method. The red blood cells are 
covered on their outer walls with the mineral 
known to have a chemical power of attraction for 
oxygen so strong that each atom of this mineral 
pulls oxygen to itself like a magnet pulls and holds 
a tack, and the name given to this mineral is Iron 
Phosphate which we call Mineral Food No. 4. 

KEEP YOUR BLOOD RED 

You have seen a piece of iron rust in the open 
air. The oxygen that is found in all forms of 
moisture, and the oxygen that is in the air, uniting 
with the iron molecules on the outside of any piece 
of iron oxidizes the iron and it becomes reddish in 
color and this we call rust. It is the same process 
that goes on in your body. 

The molecules of Iron Phosphate on the outside 
of every red blood cell have been oxidized by this 
contact with the oxygen in the lungs. This iron 
being oxidized (rust) gives the red color to the 
blood. There are about three million of these red 
blood corpuscles in one drop of blood and it has 
been estimated that every one of these little cor¬ 
puscles contains on its outside surface approximate- 



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ly seven million molecules or atoms of the finest 
possible particles of iron in the phosphate form, 
making approximately twenty-one million mole¬ 
cules of iron in every drop of blood. Can you 
think of anything finer than that. And yet men 
of so-called scientific attainments have been seen 
to sneer at the idea of the necessity in nature of 
this iron being in a most minute form, and who 
laugh to scorn the possibility of feeding the blood¬ 
stream iron in such infinitesimal qualities as it 
is found to be in nature. 

The amount of iron in the blood is extremely 
small, there being only about 44 grains of iron in 
the entire bloodstream, and yet that is nature’s law 
and nature’s way, and there is no use to ridicule 
nor to laugh about it. There is only one thing 
to do and that is to comply with nature and to fol¬ 
low her law, and the closer those natural laws are 
followed the better the results. 

As long as this iron is supplied in the proper 
form, such as a natural food would furnish, which 
is so highly attenuated that it is scarcely percep¬ 
tible in many foods of the most natural sort to 
even the most perfect chemical tests, that supply 
would never be exhausted. The iron is not sup¬ 
plied in the proper form in our unnatural foods. 
The food is either deficient in iron or it is so un¬ 
natural that the iron is not in such a form that 
seven million atoms can adhere to such a fine car¬ 
rier or conveyance as a blood corpuscle which is 
only one hundred and twenty millionths of a cubic 



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inch in size. If the form of the iron is not right 
it certainly cannot perform its function and here 
is exactly the problem. Then in addition to this, 
another phase arises and that is that some methods 
of cooking destroy the efficiency of this iron, and 
as demineralized food or unnatural foods or food 
that is improperly cooked is the method that civil¬ 
ization is following this deficiency in iron is easily 
accounted for. 

HAVE YOU HAD YOUR IRON TODAY? 

You are exhorted by the advertisements on the 
show case to eat raisins and the question is asked, 
“Have you had your iron today?” Those raisins 
are beautiful fruits from the standpoint of being 
nice to look at and are large, tender, juicy and 
sweet to the taste, and they have been changed 
from their natural state so that we have raisins 
now that do not even have the seeds which nature 
would always provide. They pack nice and they 
ship well, but they are so unnatural that even if 
they do have iron it is not in the proper form, and 
you are exhorted to get your iron that impossible 
and unnatural way. You can buy the raisins and 
you can eat them, but you cannot get the iron you 
need in the proper form that way. 

Our Mineral Food System of Health is efficient 
in getting the wonderful results today because we 
have duplicated nature. There is very little iron 
in a tablet of Mineral Food, but what iron there 
is in our Mineral Food is worked into the vehicle 



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of sugar of milk in such a way that your red blood 
cells can get the iron. Nature’s processes are dupli¬ 
cated and that is why it works. 

YOUR FOOD FAILS TO SUPPLY IRON 

Your body is never as well provided with oxygen 
as it should be for your food does not furnish the 
iron. The fires of life burn low. You are warned 
to beware of contagion and infection, which would 
be impossible if the spark of life was strong. When 
the spark of life is weakened ever so slightly the 
danger of infection is much more possible. When 
the spark of life is vigorous and strong, infection is 
impossible. Poor combustion in the cells is the 
beginning of the possibility of infection. A poor 
spark slows down the life and strength of the body. 
You slow down a little bit in all your activities. 
You pant for breath after slight exertion because 
your spark burns low, and only those who are able 
to eat and digest and assimilate enough food to 
more than make up for the mineral deficiencies, 
are strong enough to keep well, and to avoid con¬ 
tagious diseases and infections. These are the peo¬ 
ple who seem to be immune to disease. 

When epidemics come the first demand on all is 
to get enough iron to keep up the fires of life by 
the force of oxidation. And if the cells are not 
oxidized then trouble begins, and when a crisis in 
epidemics passes over a community the first se¬ 
rious need is Iron Phosphate. Those who are de¬ 
ficient are easily infected. Those who are not de- 



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ficient are immune. No more sensible explanation 
for immunity has ever been offered this suffering 
world. 

When there is not enough iron on the red blood 
corpuscles to carry the oxygen to the cells in suffi¬ 
cient quantity, then those cells suffer and they 
make their distress known through the nerve forces 
by compelling the heart to speed up and force the 
bloodstream to move more rapidly in order that 
the iron that is available can get around to the cells 
more often with its load of oxygen, in order that 
the fires of life may burn. 

It is as though a given task had been assigned to 
ten men, they being required to do that work in a 
given time, and two of the ten men fell away from 
the job, and eight men were left. These eight must 
do that work in the time allowed, which would 
mean that the eight men remaining on the job must 
speed up or the work will fail. 

The body calls for a certain amount of oxygen 
every minute, every hour. There is a minimum 
requirement for the spark of life. Take that mini¬ 
mum amount as the standard of thought and what 
must happen if it takes ten atoms of iron to do 
that minimum labor and there are only eight atoms 
on the job? It would mean that the eight remain¬ 
ing at the task must speed up to the point where 
they will deliver the minimum amount of oxygen 
required every minute, and every hour. 



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WHY FEVERS ARISE 

The heart being a faithful organ, toiling inces¬ 
santly day and night and never resting from the 
cradle to the grave, and being a faithful creature 
assigned to a task that is tremendously important 
upon which all of the cells of life depend, prompt¬ 
ly obeys the commands it receives from the smoth¬ 
ered cells crying for oxygen from all over the body 
all at the same time. It proceeds to speed up and 
it will work just as fast as it must work to de¬ 
liver the necessary oxygen, and even though it is 
supposed to beat only seventy times per minute, it 
may reach eighty and ninety and more as it forces 
the blood around at racing speed in the attempt to 
carry the needed oxygen out to the cells. 

The natural temperature of the body should be a 
little over ninety-eight degrees. If it falls below 
that a noticeable change in the spark of life takes 
place and the condition becomes distressing. If 
the body exceeds that by even one degree sensa¬ 
tions in the body will become extremely unpleasant, 
for as it is said the body will be “ill at ease” and 
every additional degree increases the distress. 

When the blood is racing through the body in 
this excited state, in order that the spark of life 
in the cells shall not fail, this excess of speed makes 
the body hot and we take the temperature and in¬ 
stead of the normal heat of ninety-eight it may be 
one hundred one or one hundred two and sometimes 
more. This is the fever conditions we are talking 
about. 



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FALSE REASONING 

The system of reasoning that has been followed 
throughout the ages past has seemed to be perfect¬ 
ly sensible. We have been trained to think that 
the trouble is with the heart when it goes too fast, 
or beats too strong, and that this is the cause of 
the fever, and, therefore, that being the case, the 
thing to do is to make the heart go slower, and so 
it has been the fashion to put into the body some 
sort of a poisonous drug to make the heart slow 
down, a heart depressant to control the tempera¬ 
ture—failing to understand the natural causes. 
We call that a fever medicine. It has been hon¬ 
estly thought that this was the proper thing to do, 
but good intentions do not overcome the evil of 
such a violent method of working against nature. 

Yet, when the laws of nature are at work to save 
life, and the body is smothering for oxygen, how 
can that be understood as in any way contributing 
to a cure by helping nature to work out the prob¬ 
lem of oxidizing the body? It is difficult to dis¬ 
cuss this thing with a proper degree of charity, and 
yet it is not a time for bitterness, even though it 
be a time for careful and serious attention. From 
a human interest standpoint it may be a time for 
earnest and thoughtful discussion, but there should 
be no sting. There should be the broadest spirit 
of tolerance toward all. The conclusion seemed 
to be reasonable. The intention has been perfectly 
honest, but the whole performance has been abso¬ 
lutely against the best interest of life in the body. 



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EVIL FORCES CLASHING 

A poisonous substance that will hold back the 
heart is essentially dangerous. The difficulty has 
always been to use the heart depressant with suffi¬ 
cient skill to avoid stopping the heart entirely. The 
dosage had to be very skillfully worked out by 
carefully counting the pulse beats and taking the 
temperature so as to judge how much poison is 
necessary, and the age and strength of the patient 
must enter in, for poisons are more deadly to some 
than to others. In many cases the whole thing 
was always an experiment and in any event it was 
always against nature. What good can be obtained 
by ever going against a perfectly automatic body, 
wonderfully made and organized to take care of 
itself, if given a chance? Any unnatural thing at 
a time of crisis like this could be nothing else but 
dangerous, and the best physicians in the world 
today have ruled against such methods and refused 
to follow in the footsteps of the fathe rs. 

It has been a frequent fashion in the past to 
meet this danger of stopping the heart by another 
medicine which has been called a heart medicine 
and was kept on hand to use when the heart slows 
down and there was danger of it stopping because 
of the other medicine—a depressant to hold it back 
and a stimulant to speed it up in case of a sinking 
spell. A fever medicine and a heart medicine, the 
one working against the other, much like the man 
who would drive down the street and manifest his 
foolishness in such a silly way as to beat his horses 



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with a whip to make them run and then to pull 
them back on their haunches by the bit to make 
them stop, first doing one thing and then the other. 
So we hold back the heart and then whip it up, 
and, after we have whipped it up we put on the 
brakes and hold it back again. All of the time the 
thing that is going on in the body is that nature 
is not only fighting for oxygen but faces another 
emergency of disposing of the poisons that are be¬ 
ing used. If any healing results, it cannot be the 
heart depressant that did it, nor c$n it be the heart 
stimulant that did it. It can only be the laws of 
nature working under those blessed laws described 
as “The healing power of nature” If the body is 
able to stand all of these disturbing poisons long 
enough the crisis will be safely passed. If the 
body cannot stand the strain long enough then you 
have heard the remark made at many a funeral to 
the effect that everything was done that could be 
done, but the poor fellow’s heart could not stand 
the treatment. 

WHY NOT HELP NATURE? 

Why should it be counted strange or impossible? 
And why should there be any doubts from a theo¬ 
retical standpoint that when we discover the real 
problem of nature is to deliver oxygen to the cells 
and that the body needs the oxygen and that the 
lungs are full of air but that the oxygen cannot be 
gotten back to the cells because the little red blood 
cells are not provided with enough iron to carry 



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it back, then what would be more natural than 
to simply help nature by supplying the need of 
Iron Phosphate, so that the blood cells can carry 
the oxygen back to the cells? When nature asks 
for iron, why give dope? When the heart is doing 
what the cells demand under the laws of nature, 
then why put on the brakes and defeat nature's 
method of healing? 

Someone says to me, “But surely you don't mean 
to contend that by simply eating that Mineral Food 
No. 4, which is Iron Phosphate in a fine delicate 
form, a crisis like a high fever can be brought 
under control?" And the answer is that such 
things happen every day. It is working fine just 
that way. I am not talking theory, unsupported by 
facts. If there were nothing but theory behind 
what I say the Mineral Food movement would have 
perished long ago. I would not be guilty, for any 
consideration, of attempting to persuade anybody 
to do anything that would not bring peace and 
comfort and victory, and until I knew that the 
case was just this strong my lips would be sealed. 

AS GOOD AS IT LOOKS 

This Mineral Food works just as good as it 
sounds. It has been proven time and time again, 
scores of times in my own family; hundreds of times 
in the families of our Mineral Food homes, and it 
does not fail. It has no element of danger in it 
as other methods have; it is perfectly safe; it is 
perfectly sensible; it is perfectly natural; it is 



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exactly the demand of nature; it answers the posi¬ 
tive need in any such case as described and there 
is no disappointment because it works in a tre¬ 
mendous way. It is not unusual for results to 
come quickly, for in acute cases the action is fre¬ 
quently rapid as well as certain. In cases where 
there is a great malignant power behind the fever 
it may take time, but it meets nature’s need and 
gives nature strength to fight its own battle, and 
no better thing can ever be done in any case. 

Is it to be wondered at that our Mineral Food 
members become enthusiastic and are living advo¬ 
cates of a system so fine as that? I cannot think 
of anything that will give a greater feeling of 
security in the home than experience after expe¬ 
rience in mild forms and then serious ones and 
every time with victory and never disappointment. 
This is the experience of our Mineral Food friends. 

When the mother or father of any home once 
senses the feeling of security that arises from such 
experiences with no guess work or doubts, always 
working true to form, then that is a home where 
enthusiasm is bound to result. It is so tremendous¬ 
ly satisfactory to have the feeling that if someone 
calls for help in the home tonight and a raging 
high fever is found that it is only a matter of a 
few hours until it is over. This is accomplished 
without any evil after-effects, such as a weak heart, 
or a need of a tonic, or any of those things expe¬ 
rienced in the general run of past practices. 



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Every year epidemics and diseases of a disturb¬ 
ing nature sweep the country. Those whose bodies 
are not prepared for the emergency, are those who 
most easily become the victims of the waves of 
distress, sorrow, sickness and death that follow in 
the wake of epidemics every year. It matters not 
whether you call it the flu or the grippe, and it 
does not matter whether it takes the form of pneu¬ 
monia or typhoid, it does not matter in the least 
what the name of the disease may be for it is a 
problem of oxidization and a fever arises and the 
demand of nature is to supply the need—which is 
more iron in the proper form. 

PREVENT THIS DISTRESS 

Can you visualize the heartaches and distress, 
the burdens of expense and the loss of time, 
the loss to the economic life of our nation, the 
financial burden that is placed on the home, and 
especially when the breadwinner is taken away 
from his task and his earning power ceases? At 
such times it looks like everything has gone wrong 
and every member of the family from the oldest 
to the youngest, is made to sacrifice to the point of 
endurance, and sometimes suffer for the needs of 
life. 

You may have the feeling of fear that it might 
not work. You may feel that you do not dare to 
assume the responsibility of proving it. I can re¬ 
member the heartbreaking anxiety of my own ex¬ 
perience when I first reached the point where I 'felt 




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I must test this out in an emergency case in my 
own family. The sense of agony as I watched for 
results was awful, and I would not scold anybody 
or say an unkind word to an anxious father or 
mother who is not willing to trust to the theoreti¬ 
cal line of reasoning presented, for I know myself 
how hard it is. I would rather pick up the shovel 
and toil that way for my living than to prey upon 
any anxious individual at such a time. But you 
should at least assume the responsibility of prov¬ 
ing this out step by step on minor ailments first, 
gradually learning how certain it is, so that you 
may be ready to prove it strong when some emer¬ 
gency arises. Remember if you do not assume this 
responsibility you are assuming another. If you 
refuse to learn how good this is you are at least 
placing your trust in old methods that even the 
best physicians have lost confidence in. Refusal 
to accept a new responsibility does not release you 
from the responsibility of depending on past mis¬ 
takes. 


THE FULLNESS OF EXPERIENCE 

I wish from the bottom of my heart that I could 
take the world with me as I go about and hear of 
these victories. My life is full and rich in this 
experience. It is peculiar to the task that I have 
been forced to assume. It is my work. I wish 
that all of you could hear the stories of victory 
told by mothers who grasp my hand and tell me 
of the victory they have won under trying circum- 




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stances where their faith was tried, where their 
anxious heart almost beat in agony as they ven¬ 
tured to test it out, and then when they observed 
that victory followed victory and they learned to 
have confidence in the laws of nature, notice their 
sense of security and the enthusiasm they manifest. 

It would take a man that was bereft of human 
sympathy to go about in this world and hear the 
things that I hear and see the victories that I have 
seen others win for themselves and not be moved 
with compassion and thrilled with an anxious de¬ 
sire to carry on. This is why I hunger and thirst 
for a greater power of persuasion. I know that the 
world needs the message and I know how hard it 
is to believe. This is the thing that keeps me awake 
nights as I analyze myself because of the times 
when I fear I am not up to my best. This is the 
thing that makes me feel that I am an unprofitable 
servant and a weak advocate of the biggest and 
best thing ever given to the world. 

Not long ago I called at a home where the young¬ 
est boy of the family had recently been laid away 
a victim of typhoid fever. I hesitate to say all of 
the things that were said at the time, for much 
bitterness was spoken. This family lived in a com¬ 
munity where an intolerant spirit prevailed and 
they felt compelled to pass the case of their son 
over to the old regular way under the doctor and 
nurse. So far as they could see the boy was doing 
nicely. The fever was not high. He was reason¬ 
ably comfortable. He was resting nicely and yet 



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the folks in the neighborhood kept coming in and 
forcing upon them the idea that they were doing 
something almost criminal in not having a nurse 
and a doctor at hand. 

This mother had had wonderful victories in that 
home with Mineral Food and they had confidence 
in the Mineral Food System, but they felt that they 
had to give way to the popular demand and they 
called the doctor. The doctor called the nurse and 
the two assumed complete control and the Mineral 
Food was set aside. The regular things were done, 
the things that the fathers had taught, the things 
that had always seemed reasonable to do, but which 
were against nature. 

With tears streaming down her face that mother 
berated herself for her weakness in giving in. She 
felt that she had made a mistake. She might have 
known that it would have been just so, for as soon 
as the Mineral Food was discontinued the fever 
began to come up and even though it was said that 
the case proved to be a very malignant one and 
although all sorts of perfectly reasonable excuses 
were given, that mother will never recover from 
the conviction that if they could only have been 
left alone; if they could only have followed nature 
as they had learned to do; if they could only have 
maintained control, which up to the very last mo¬ 
ment when they were in control had shown a con¬ 
stant victory for them, that the darling of the home, 
the pride of the father and the joy to the mother, 




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would have been with them still. They believe they 
could have won the victory. 

These are heartbreaking times and heartbreaking 
experiences from every standpoint, and from every 
phase. We all need the help of an enlightened and 
quickened public opinion. We all need to be anx¬ 
ious as we observe the tendency of the times, and 
those tendencies are away from nature, where there 
should be confidence in the laws of nature. We 
need to learn the certainty of nature. We need to 
sense the all sufficiency of nature. We need to 
prove out Mineral Food. 

Lose no opportunity. Do not wait for the emer¬ 
gency to arise. Learn your Language of Nature. 
Master the course of lessons. Become familiar 
with every detail. Be ready, be prepared, prove 
it out, and I say to you with a firm conviction of 
experience the bigness of which has passed all of 
my expectations, the longer you live in the midst 
of these things and the more you see of the splen¬ 
did provings possible with the Mineral Food System 
of Health, the more tremendously you will be con¬ 
vinced that we are giving to the world the biggest 
and best thing on health. When you prove that 
this is so, you are going to put your best into the 
work of spreading this great movement on Health. 

The Mineral Food System is Your Way to Health! 

The Language of Nature Shows You the Way! 

Follow That Way! 



CHILDREN’S DISEASES 


CHAPTER 10. 

The life and health of childhood is a sacred obli¬ 
gation. These dear children did not ask to come 
into the world, but now that they are here they 
have a sacred right to live out their time and in 
childhood that sacred right is trusted to parents 
and society. A failure to discharge that sacred 
obligation is a deplorable breach of trust. 

The tremendous amount of infant mortality and 
the widespread epidemics of children’s diseases are 
sweeping our country clean, breaking the home ties 
that are most tender and nipping in the bud the 
blooming hope of our nation. This is a problem 
that any man of sensitive morality, or of ethical 
decency, must approach with care. 

It is with a feeling of responsibility so great as 
to create a sensation of shrinking from the load 
that this subject is discussed. Experience compels 
me to say that I am honestly and tremendously 
convinced that the only excuse for all of this woe 
is the failure to realize some of the most simple 
things to be known about nature, and these multi¬ 
tudes of funeral processions of young lives nipped 
in the bud, not permitted to live out their destiny 
with such tremendous loss to the home and to so¬ 
ciety, need not be, if only the laws of nature were 


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better understood and complied with in a natural 
way. 

I cannot make such a statement as the above 
without thoroughly consecrating what poor power 
I may have to the next great problem and that is 
to make sure that no weight of evidence, no power 
of persuasion shall be neglected. 

THE MOTHER AND HER FOOD 

The infant comes into the world under the most 
distressing conditions. During the period of for¬ 
mation, close to the mother’s heart, the babe is de¬ 
pendent upon receiving the natural elements re¬ 
quired for a perfect development through the blood¬ 
stream and the life forces of the mother. If those 
forces are deficient, because of the unnatural life 
that we live, and the unnatural food that we eat, 
and because of a demineralized diet, which sacri¬ 
fice had been made for the sensations of food de¬ 
manded by the habits of society which are fastened 
upon everyone, then all of this works in such a 
way as to deprive that mother. 

THE SINS OF THE FATHERS 

Then who is to blame if that infant reaches the 
world poorly equipped or not equipped at all? The 
world has been taught to say that the sins of the 
fathers are visited upon the children, and there 
are heartbroken parents and humiliated homes all 
over the land where children are born deformed 



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and disqualified for the struggle of life. The 
thought runs in the minds of neighbors and friends 
that surely there is something wrong with the fath¬ 
er or the mother, or the grandfather or the grand¬ 
mother, and the odius load of rebuke has been at¬ 
tached to these things that would never have oc- 
cured if nature had had a chance to do the correct 
thing. 

I can never witness such a thing without a feel¬ 
ing of depression, for I know what the heartache 
must have been as lives go through the daily ex¬ 
istence with the aching sensation of a rebuking 
world. The finger of scorn may not be pointed, 
friends and neighbors may be charitable in their 
looks, but somehow there is an atmosphere, a pecu¬ 
liar penumbra which spreads itself over the minds 
of all involved and they have the feeling and not 
without reason that folks are thinking these 
thoughts of rebuke. 

THE REAL PRE-NATAL INFLUENCE 

Lime is the great need in the growing babe, close 
to its mother’s heart. Lime is the great deficiency 
in all of the food. Mineral Food No. 1, which is 
Lime Fluoride, and Mineral Food No. 2, which is 
Lime Phosphate, build the bone, and the mother 
must furnish these lime minerals, and if her food 
is unnatural and demineralized it places a heavy 
drain upon the mother’s body. Her teeth decay 
because under the laws of nature she must sacri¬ 
fice to the limit of her natural power. Her 



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strength ebbs and flows. She suffers the agony of 
pain caused by the lack of these minerals in her 
body. For months this goes on while she pays the 
price and makes the sacrifice, and then once in a 
while, when the need is desperate and the condi¬ 
tions are distressing, after the price of pain and 
distress has been fully paid, a babe is born with 
malformation and with improper bone tissues, and 
there is no just cause that can be alleged when one 
comes to understand the laws of nature, except the 
fact that the poor mother did her best and it was 
to no avail, for the bone could not be formed prop¬ 
erly unless the mineral needs could be supplied. 

MALFORMATIONS 

Why did not the bone form correctly? It is so 
simple that the “wayfaring man though a fool may 
understand.” Such a bone as a clubfoot, or the 
failure to produce bone, such as the child that is 
born without hands or feet, or any malformation 
such as the hairlip or the soft palate, have all hap¬ 
pened because nature has done the best thing pos¬ 
sible under the circumstances. It was not a freak 
of nature, and it was not the sins of the fathers. 
It was just unnatural, demineralized food. 

When bones are not correctly formed it is an¬ 
other one of those conditions described in the Lec¬ 
ture on the healing power of nature. Other min¬ 
erals have been taken to substitute for the lime 
the mother could not provide, and nature made the 
best bone that could be made with the materials 



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at hand. It is as though the law of nature had 
decreed that it is better to have a crooked, poorly 
shaped bone than no bone at all. But when Lime 
Phosphate and Lime Fluoride cannot be obtained 
for the natural processes, then some other minerals 
such as Magnesium, or Silica, or Potassium or 
whatever minerals were available, were used. But 
these substitute minerals could not make as fine 
a bone as the natural lime mineral would make, 
so the bone that is formed is not the right kind 
of a bone and does not take the right shape and is 
not of the right structure. The dead grandparents 
may have been guilty of contributing some to this 
malformation, for no doubt they did as we do and 
tried to get as good a food as possible, but their 
guilt had no more than that to do with the matter. 
The mother may be just as guilty as you or I, or 
anybody else, for we are all weak, erring creatures 
about the food we eat. We are bound to do what 
the world does and eat what the world eats, and 
we are tied up in a civilization where we must 
follow the fads and the fancies of the time. All of 
these things may be true, but the guilt should lie 
on the conscience of society rather than on the 
broken heart of the mother who paid the price and 
did her best with everything against her. 

INFANT DISEASES 

After the child is born, even if it seems to be all 
right so far as can be observed by the naked eye, 
still it comes into the world in many cases with a 



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deficiency of the lime elements and suffers the pains 
of babyhood in teething because of a deficiency in 
No. 1 and 2. Infantile paralysis may follow from 
this deficiency of minerals, and it suffers cholera 
infantum, and practically all of these baby dis¬ 
eases are due to lime deficiency. 

It is time that society begins to assume its share 
of the blame for all of the suffering and heartache 
that is pressed upon the few victims who are con¬ 
stantly paying the price for the sins of the entire 
race. I am proud of the fact that the Mineral Food 
System makes these sins of our food follies the 
sins of all, rather than just the sin of those who 
suffer. 

The world may laugh me to scorn. The finger of 
hatred may be pointed my way by those who fear 
their business is going to be injured and the storm 
of controversy may rage all about me, but I am 
glad to feel that I can lift my face to my God and 
my head to my fellow men and walk the streets, 
justified by a sensible answer to all of these mys¬ 
teries and vagaries of past ages. My life is full 
to overflowing with the satisfaction and enthusiasm 
that enables me to say that if I cannot be popular, 
at any rate I have “bread to eat that the world 
knows not of,” which bread is the conviction of a 
big value delivered to all who command this service. 

Most of the diseases of infants come in the defi¬ 
ciency of the lime minerals, No. 1 and No. 2. But 
after that period of babyhood is safely over the 



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children’s diseases of the school age begin. The 
epidemic diseases of this period are an entirely 
different problem. 

SCHOOL AGE DISEASES 

About the first day of September of every year 
our children are taken away from their natural 
physical life of play in the open air, to which they 
so naturally respond, and gathered together in the 
school room. We have learned that the man or 
the woman who faces the responsibilities of adult 
life, without proper educational training, is poorly 
equipped and can scarcely carry on in the great 
competitive Marathon race of life which has its 
beginning at the cradle and has no end except the 
grave. No fault is to be found with that program. 
It must be so, yet every year this school program 
works havoc to childhood. 

Your boy or girl is made to feel that he must 
do well at school; that he must be bright, quick 
and intelligent; that his wits must be sharpened, 
and you are proud of your children in proportion 
to the way they make good on this performance. 

PHYSICAL EFFECTS OF MENTAL DEVELOPMENT 

This means that they are required to specialize 
on nerves. They must build up their brain power. 
One of the twelve minerals of the body is used in 
nature’s plan to build these gray-matter cells. It 
is Potassium Phosphate. Such an intense speciali- 



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zation on nerve and brain development, as the expe¬ 
rience of life has taught us to require of our chil¬ 
dren, becomes a heavy drain upon the body to 
furnish this mineral which is demanded in a greater 
degree than the food we feed these children can 
supply. 

The food is not right, for it does not bring up a 
sufficient quantity of this mineral. It may be sani¬ 
tary food, but it is demineralized food and is so 
unnatural that even sometimes the mineral that is 
in the food, such as in a big delicious looking apple 
or orange, is not in the proper or natural form be¬ 
cause these foods are so unnaturally grown, that 
they are not natural foods. The case is set against 
the welfare of the child and you cannot help it, 
for you must live as the world lives and eat as the 
world eats. For you might as well be out of the 
world, as not to be a part of the world. 

The child works on sharpening the wits, and this 
mineral becomes deficient and the gray-matter cells 
suffer for the need of their natural food and make 
that need known by nature’s method and the child 
becomes nervous and irritable and gives signs that 
any mother would be able to understand if she 
only knew the Language of Nature, all of which 
would mean to her that her boy or her girl needed 
No. 6, Potassium Phosphate, the mineral which 
builds and sustains the gray-matter cells, and keeps 
up the chemical vibrations of life that take place 
in the brain cell while the child specializes on de¬ 
velopment of wits. If the need is not supplied, 



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nature must resort to some method of getting this 
mineral and this is done by demanding a sacrifice 
of other minerals in the body. 

MINERALS CHANGING BASE 

Potassium Phosphate is the great need and there 
is another mineral in the body called Potassium 
Chloride, just a different base or formation on the 
same original mineral. The chloride form cannot 
be used in the body to support the gray-matter 
cells, for it has another task to work upon. Nature 
does the best thing it can do. This mineral for 
gray-matter cells must be provided because the 
child is being forced by the rules of its life to de¬ 
velop on wits and must work at it and make good, 
and so nature responds by taking this Potassium 
Chloride away from its natural function in the 
body and the chloride is disposed of by chemical 
processes, for the body is a wonderful chemical 
laboratory where chemical changes take place all 
of the time. Some other mineral, perhaps a So¬ 
dium Phosphate, is taken away from its natural 
function and the sodium is released and carried 
out through the kidneys, and the phosphorous is 
then free to unite with the Potassium and thus 
the needed Potassium Phosphate is obtained to 
carry on the work of the gray-matter cells. It is the 
old proposition illustrated in previous Lectures of 
a change of base to provide a need, and in this way 
the process of meeting the demands of life goes on. 



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By this process of changing base the other min¬ 
erals used become deficient in the body. When 
Sodium Phosphate is deficient the acids of the body 
are not properly neutralized, for this mineral is 
the alkali that controls the acids which are natural 
to the body but must be under the control of this 
alkali. 

When these acids are not under control the child 
has heartburn, sour stomach, acid in the vomit, 
acid anywhere. Worms require an acid medium in 
which to live, and hence many children have worms 
as a result of a deficiency of the mineral alkali 
which controls the acids of the body. Not neces¬ 
sarily too much acid, but acid without the alkali. 

Sore throat often has its beginning with acids 
that are discharged in the throat which irritate 
and burn the delicate membranes. Such conditions 
break down vitality all over the body. Any mother 
can notice the sour breath. Any child can tell 
when it has a sour taste in the mouth, indicating 
a need for Sodium Phosphate, which is Mineral 
Food No. 10, and many a child’s life could have 
been saved if this simple Language of Nature had 
been in the home and the mother and children had 
lived with it until they learned it. 

I see children on the street going home from 
school who advertise the dangers of their young 
lives by acid signs on their faces. These signs are 
easy to read. Any mother can do it. The poor 
kiddies are dependent upon their parents for this 



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hope of life and efficiency. They do not know, 
and their parents do not realize the need. 

In the second semester when the strain of the 
school year begins to tell most seriously these signs 
always become more pronounced, and the danger 
is greater, and the young life is hanging on, wait¬ 
ing for summer vacation which brings the chance 
to gradually recover as fast as poor unnatural and 
demineralized food can supply the need with the 
help of a more natural outdoor life of play. But 
even this hope is soon to be taken away from these 
children who have no voice or vote in the matter 
because there are educators who are so crazy as 
to agitate for school the year round. 

But notice another deficiency takes place. Pot¬ 
assium Chloride is taken away to do another duty 
and now this becomes deficient, unless a greater 
supply is obtained. Its work in the body is to 
change the form of albumen so that it becomes a 
fibrin, for the albumen must be in this form be¬ 
cause the tender life of childhood demands fibrin 
as the necessary substance for the development of 
new cells in a rapidly growing child’s body and 
is absolutely necessary for a growing child. 

THE HEALING POWER OF NATURE 

When the Potassium Chloride becomes deficient 
and the fibrin becomes inert and useless it must 
be discharged, otherwise more trouble will arise, 
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you say tonsilitis; if it comes down to the thyroid 
gland you say diphtheria; if it comes out through 
one set of vessicles in the skin, you say measles; 
if it comes out through another set of vessicles in 
the skin you say chicken pox; if it passes out 
through the trachea or windpipe you say croup; if 
it lodges in the glands of the throat you say mumps, 
and if it drops down lower in the throat you say 
membraneous croup. You drive down the street 
and you see homes decorated with different colors 
as a warning of disease. One sign says diphtheria; 
another measles and another scarlet fever. The 
epidemic sweeps the country and the flower of life 
is nipped off, and the research laboratories are 
rummaging around in mysterious ways hunting for 
germs. 

HOW TO FIGHT GEKMS 

But what of that? None of these germs can do 
any child any harm unless there is waste fibrin 
somewhere being discharged for the germ to feed 
upon. Yet although these things can be proven 
in any home and although you may easily demon¬ 
strate the efficiency of this Mineral Food System, 
the world holds back because it sounds new and 
strange. The true way to fight germs is to starve 
them by preventing these discharges. Future gen¬ 
erations will look upon the germ theory of the 
20th century with just the same laughing scorn 
that the present generation looks back on ancient 
times when doctors believed that sickness was a 
case of the devil infecting the body. 



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WHY NOT SHOOT THE GERMS NOW? 

It was not long ago that there were scientific 
men who were orthodox in their convictions and 
who believed that it would be a good thing to load 
a cannon with gunpowder and take it out into an 
open lot and not put a bullet or shell in that 
cannon, but just powder, and elevate the muzzle 
of the cannon to the sky pointing at nothing and 
shooting it off, in the belief that by so doing the 
germs of disease might be killed. It is ridiculous 
to our present knowledge, but it is no more ridicu¬ 
lous than some of the things that are believed to¬ 
day will be to future generations. 

And yet I would not have anyone think that I 
mean to say we do not have germs, and disease 
germs at that. I would not combat the effort to 
stop the bad practice of coughing in someone’s 
face. There is too much evidence to sustain all 
of these things and besides all of that, I have seen 
germs at work and at play as others have done 
in the laboratory. If the spark of life is low, 
germs are dangerous. But the amazing thing to 
me is that the world is so slow and hesitates so long 
to grasp the opportunity to prove what wonderfully 
intelligent creatures these germs are when they 
strike a place where they cannot work, where the 
spark of life is so strong that they can not play 
their havoc habits. 

Any home can prove these things are so. The 
germ lives on the food that is natural to their 



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organism. If it does not get that food it will starve 
and die or pass into the resting stage if you prefer 
that term. But if the spark of life in the cells is 
strong the germ cannot get the food upon which 
it lives. It lives on decaying waste matter. What 
could be more natural and sensible, and how else 
can you better explain the problem of immunity. 
Raise the question in your own mind when the 
next epidemic sweeps across the country and the 
germs are everywhere and ask yourself the ques¬ 
tion, “why are some immune?” Is it because the 
germs do not get them? Such a thought is ridicu¬ 
lous. In fact, it is frequently noticed that one 
child was sleeping with another at the very time 
the disease was most infectious and yet that child 
did not and could not catch the disease. 

Why this immunity? And until someone can 
offer a better explanation of immunity let the world 
seek a better answer. 

And right now at the time of the publication of 
this book our country is facing an epidemic. In 
some places schools are closed. Homes are broken, 
hearts are aching and civilization is in distress, 
and the worst thing of it all is that the dear inno¬ 
cent little creatures who deserve a chance to live 
are the victims of society which is universally guilty 
of the sins of sensation—a society that would pre¬ 
fer a delicious food which tickles the palate with 
the peculiar sensations so sweet to taste than to 
have a food that is natural. 



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It is impossible to go back to a natural food, for 
such a sweeping reform as that would shake the 
foundations of society. It would disturb all busi¬ 
ness, and would make men and women hate one 
another. Such a reform would be much more diffi¬ 
cult than the prohibition of liquor. Observe what 
men will do and how they will tight to maintain 
what they consider to be their sacred right to drink 
a poisonous liquor if they want to. But if we were 
to undertake to compel the world by statutory law 
to stop eating unnatural food, what a roar and a 
wail there would be and what a deep chasm would 
be created between the convictions existing on both 
sides of the question. 

WHY NOT TRUST NATURE? 

The hope of such a thing is impossible. The sug¬ 
gestion would be ridiculous, and yet there is a way 
of escape so reasonable that the only thing that 
prevents it from taking lodgment is the prejudice 
of the uninvestigating mind and the tendency of 
so many to follow the traditions of the fathers. 
It is so easy to believe the thing that everybody 
else is believing. It is so hard for a new principle 
to find its place in the sun and yet there is a way 
of escape. It is the natural way. It is the way 
which is operated by the Master Mind of the Uni¬ 
verse. Those who see what they look at, and those 
who listen to what they hear, and who get the mean¬ 
ing of what seems new and strange, are those who 
are reaching out and who are receiving for their 



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great good the best thing ever offered the world 
on this distressing problem of health. They are 
sifted out of the masses of humanity as the elect 
and the message comes to you. 

No greater duty can be placed upon any one than 
the duty of serving his fellow men. There is no 
higher conscience than that of rendering a service 
that is greater than the recompense received. That 
also is a law of nature. It is the law that teaches 
people the difference between good and evil. That 
great law is that the service of good gives more 
than it gets, and the chief characteristic of those 
tendencies peculiar to evil is that the attempt is 
made to get more than is given. 

YOUR GREAT OPPORTUNITY 

The opportunity comes to you to prove the won¬ 
derful laws of nature by following these princi¬ 
ples and proving them. 

In the meantime hearts are breaking and lives 
are in danger. There are loved ones of your own 
flesh and blood, as well as your friends and neigh¬ 
bors, who are waiting on you. They may not 
realize that they are waiting on you but they are 
in danger and they know it not. When the clouds 
of anxiety have been lifted from you after you have 
proven that these things are true then you are go¬ 
ing to be proud to show your friends that you have 
learned a great truth, which truth has set you free 
from the fear of sickness and disease and prema¬ 
ture death. 



THE WATER LEVEL OF 
THE BODY 

CHAPTER 11. 

The most wonderful thing about your body is 
the perfectly working automatic methods by which 
it takes care of itself. Seventy per cent of the 
human body weight is water. The water element 
must, therefore, be tremendously important. But 
strange to say, if you will search all of the scientific 
literature in the history of science you will find 
very little consideration is given to this tremen¬ 
dously important element. And yet, many lives 
are lost because this water substance becomes dis¬ 
turbed and this water adjustment is “monkeyed” 
with so seriously as to destroy nature’s fine auto¬ 
matic arrangements. 

There are multitudes of billions of cells in your 
body, and every one of them must be bathed in wa¬ 
ter and must have water inside of its cell walls. 
It is, therefore, not to be marveled at that so much 
of the body is water. 

The cells are laid in layers and built up in a 
splendid mechanical way around the connective 
tissue of the body and there must be a fine thin 
stream of water in the spaces that lie between the 
cells called the interstices of the issues. Every 


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189 


cell of life, whether vegetable or animal, must be 
bathed in water. We call ourselves land animals, 
for we walk upon the land and we breathe the air 
and we are not like the fish that live in a water 
medium. So we say water animals and land ani¬ 
mals. But after all, life in every form is depen¬ 
dent upon water. 

If the cells of your body are not bathed in water 
and do not have water inside their cell walls they 
die. They cannot live except in a water medium. 
Nature has devised a splendid scheme by which 
the water is conveyed to the cells of your body and 
so perfectly distributed that it is kept at a perfect 
level. It is one of the most delicate arrangements 
of life. It is one of the most important needs of 
life. 


VITAL TO LIFE 

The water content of your body is vital to life, 
and that mineral known as Sodium Chloride is 
the mineral that is used in nature to provide for 
this fine distribution. The mineral in your body 
known as Sodium Phosphate is the mineral that 
is used in order to keep up the supply and to keep 
the water from becoming deficient so that it does 
not fall below the proper level. The mineral in 
your body known as Sodium Sulphate is the min¬ 
eral that automatically adjusts the water level 
so that there shall never be a surplus of water in 
your body, and hence this phrase “the water level 
of the body” is a proper expression. The level 



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must be exactly right. If there is too much there 
will be distress. If there is not enough there will 
be a different kind of distress. The line must be 
just so finely drawn, and just so perfectly adjusted 
to such a fine point that the water level is exactly 
right. This is the problem which we propose to 
discuss in this Lecture. 

THE STEAM BOILER WATER LEVEL 

I drive a Stanley Steam car. The boiler on this 
car has an automatic valve which operates in such 
a way that when the water level gets low the steam 
will enter and heat an expansion tube so it will 
close a very delicately adjusted valve which moves 
only about one sixty-fourth of an inch—just a 
little bit—but so delicately adjusted that this slight 
movement will close a “by-pass valve,” and in this 
way compel the water pump to force water into the 
boiler against the five hundred pound steam pres¬ 
sure the boiler is supposed to carry. 

It is a wonderful little piece of mechanism. It 
works in a wonderful way and it never fails. When 
I first began to drive this car I had a feeling of 
nervousness about that valve for fear it would not 
work, but I have become so accustomed to it that 
now I expect it to work. And yet wonderful as 
it is, this valve cannot be compared with the won¬ 
derful mechanism of your body. 




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MAN COPIES AFTER NATURE 

One of the amazing things about the human 
body is that it seems to be the natural prototype 
or basis for every ingenious piece of machinery 
man makes. Without knowing that we do it, man¬ 
kind seems by instinct to create and invent 
mechanisms that are the counterpart of natural 
creations that the great Master Mechanic of the 
Universe has worked out before us. This little 
valve on my steam boiler opens up and shuts the 
water off in such a way that my boiler never be¬ 
comes flooded, and it closes up and forces in the 
water in such a way that my boiler never goes dry. 
It was my experience with this boiler that caused 
me to think about the water level idea, and gave 
me this new setting for illustrating this water 
problem of the body described in this Lecture. 

We will take up the method by which nature 
supplies the water in the first place. It comes to 
you in the food you eat, for the meat you eat con¬ 
tains water, and the bread you eat contains water. 
There is scarcely anything that you eat which does 
not carry water into your body. 

YOUR WATER PRESSURE SYSTEM 

Water enters the stomach and the intestinal 
tract, and when water is needed it is pulled into 
the bloodstream from this intestinal food canal. 
It is done by the drawing power of Sodium Chlo¬ 
ride, the mineral that should be in your bloodstream 
and in all of the cells of your body. But there 



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must be more Sodium Chloride in your bloodstream 
than there is in the food canal. If the balance is 
disturbed the bloodstream cannot pull the water 
out of the food canal, for if there is more Sodium 
Chloride in the food canal than there is in the 
bloodstream, the water would be pulled the wrong 
way. 

When the water enters the bloodstream it flows 
out past all of the cells out through the interstices 
of the tissues or the middle places between the 
cells, all over the body and all around the multi¬ 
tudes of cells. The water passes in a thin, fine 
stream and when the cells need water it is pulled 
inside the cell walls by the drawing power of the 
mineral known as Sodium Chloride, which has a 
strong affinity or attraction or pulling power for 
water. It works perfectly as long as the contin¬ 
uity of the mineral that controls the water sub¬ 
stance of the body is not disturbed. 

If this mineral (Sodium Chloride) is properly 
distributed throughout the body the water will 
be constantly pulled from the food canal into the 
bloodstream and from the bloodstream into the 
cells, and a perfect balance of the water content 
will be maintained. It is a wonderful law. It 
works in a wonderful way. It was devised by the 
Infinite Mind. Nothing better could be done than 
has been done for your comfort and well-being. 

This mineral or dust of the earth, which we call 
Sodium Chloride, is known in common terms as 



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table salt, and at first thought you would be in¬ 
clined to jump at the conclusion that there could 
be no deficiency of this mineral in the body, for 
salt is so cheap and we use so much on all of our 
food, so that we must certainly have enough salt. 

THE POSSIBILITY OF TOO MUCH SALT 

I can remember, when I was a boy in school, of 
reading the story in my second or third reader 
about a doctor who approached the king and asked 
the king to permit him to experiment on a mur¬ 
derer condemned to die. The king granted the 
request and the doctor took all of the salt out of 
that man’s food and he died a miserable death be¬ 
fore the time came for him to go to the gallows. 
Many things have been done to impress upon us 
the necessity for salt and we seem to think that 
there is a wonderful virtue in using large quanti¬ 
ties of salt. But it will be well to look carefully 
into the problem and see what happens when we 
eat large quantities of salt. 

If you take too much salt into the stomach and 
intestinal tract, and you make the food canal more 
salty than the bloodstream, you can see at once 
that the water will be pulled the wrong way. Did 
you ever see back-water at the mouth of a creek 
or river when the water in the main stream was 
so high that the stream was backing up in the 
creek? If you have you will remember that you 
never saw any filthier or dirtier water in your life. 
Backwater is always filthy water. It is so in your 



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body. The water that you take into the food canal 
which passes out into the bloodstream and then 
to the cells of the body, is pure, sweet, clean and 
wholesome water. But when you start the water 
flowing backwards and have back-water in the body, 
it is filthy stuff. 

When the food canal becomes more salty than 
the bloodstream it will pull the water out of the 
bloodstream, and an individual in that condition 
will suffer an almost perpetual thirst for water. 
The cells are choking for water, and they express 
their needs through the nervous system by the 
manifestation of that sensation which we call 
thirst. The body calls for water and you drink 
large quantities of water, and it is the thing to 
do under those circumstances, for when the food 
canal becomes too saline it takes a large quantity 
of water to modify the saline condition so as to 
reduce the heaviness of the salt content in the 
food canal to prevent the fine water level of the 
body from being thrown out of balance. The salt 
is washed out that way to protect the bloodstream 
so the water will not be pulled out and away from 
the real point of need. 

If you will begin to observe your experience you 
will see what has been going on in your own body 
or those about you. Anyone who has formed the 
habit of eating large quantities of salt day after 
day and year after year, is surely tampering with 
nature in this way so persistently as to cause a 
mal-arrangement in the water content of the body. 



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If the water is pulled out of the bloodstream, 
eventually nature must adjust the mal-arrange- 
ment of water by forcing the bloodstream to take 
unto itself a water that is too salty, and that makes 
the bloodstream too saline. There is too much salt 
there, and that will react in such a way as to pull 
the water out of the cells until the balance can be 
restored and more water taken into the cells. Then 
the cells may become dry, and so the mal-arrange- 
ment and mal-adjustment of the natural problems 
go on and water runs out of the nose and out of 
the eyes and some have hay-fever and some have 
colds and sneezing, and all of the time it is nature 
attempting to do the best that can be done to re¬ 
adjust this mal-adjustment and to re-establish the 
fine, thin stream of water which should be all over 
the body. 

Nature will not permit the level to become too 
high, for there are other laws to prevent that dan¬ 
ger. When a disturbance arises in this mineral 
substance of the body the water distribution all 
over the body around all of the cells of the body 
is out of balance, and many diseases are due to 
this thing. That is, too much salt in the wrong 
place and not enough salt in the right place, and 
hence the natural automatic adjustment of the 
water level of the body is destroyed. 

This Sodium Chloride mineral, which we call 
Mineral Food No. 9, is recognized as one of the 
vital minerals to life. There are three such min¬ 
erals that are vital to life. No. 2, because it con- 



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trols the food. No. 4, because it distributes the 
oxygen, and No. 9, because it distributes the water. 
These three things are the three fundamental neces¬ 
sities to all life: food, air and water. 

WATER DISTURBANCE DISEASES 

You have observed that in many diseases of a 
wasting nature, such as Bright’s disease, or heart 
diseases, the final symptoms, or the final form 
when the disease becomes fatal, is often dropsy. 
We have been accustomed to say that there is too 
much water in the body in a case of dropsy, and 
those who are suffering with dropsy are frequently 
suffering also with a consuming thirst and the 
cells are crying for water. It isn’t a case of too 
much water at all, but a case where the distribu¬ 
tion of the water over the body has become dis¬ 
turbed. You cannot use water in the body unless 
that water is under the control of the mineral de¬ 
signed by the great Master Mechanic of the Uni¬ 
verse. 

Water and Sodium Chloride have a chemical 
affinity and an attractive or pulling power for each 
other. The water that is in your body is disturb¬ 
ing to your body and cannot function there unless 
it is under the control of this mineral. When this 
mineral becomes deficient that water must be dis¬ 
charged. It rushes out because it cannot be used 
in the cells unless under the control of this mineral. 
It is discharged from multitudes of billions of 
cells all over the body at the same time, for it 




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must pass out that way, and then the bloodstream 
must protect itself by getting rid of this surplus 
water. 

If it cannot pass out through the kidneys and the 
bladder fast enough it must pass into some other 
channel. It is nature attempting to save itself. 
It collects, in some region most easily invaded be¬ 
cause of sagging or flabby tissues and we say a 
tumor or dropsy as the case might be. Then we 
operate on the tumor or tap the dropsical condi¬ 
tion and draw off the water and refuse to give 
the patient water to drink while the cells may be 
choking for water, for the salt content, or the So¬ 
dium Chloride mineral, is not distributed in the 
right way. 

The blood may be found to be too salty. That is 
the very reason the water is being pulled out of the 
cells. The saline condition of the food canal may 
be heavy. If so, that is wrong, for the salt dis¬ 
tribution should be so that the pressure placed 
upon the drawing power of the water will pull 
water out of the food canal into the bloodstream 
and then out of the bloodstream and into the cell. 
If it flows that way all will be well and if it does 
not flow that way, the situation is deplorable and 
dangerous. 

To take more common table salt into the stomach 
or food canal is not only wrong, but dangerous. 
You cannot get salt back into the little fine cells 
of the body except in a food form. It must be in 



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the organic food form. There is no other way to 
do it, and that is the reason we have had such won¬ 
derful results by the use of the Mineral Food in 
just such cases as above described, for we have 
duplicated nature and a way has been found to 
put this very necessary salt right where it is need¬ 
ed to restore the balance. By the use of our Min¬ 
eral Food the needs of the body can be supplied 
in such a way that this No. 9 Mineral Food will 
enter the bloodstream and pass into the cells and 
restore the balances, so that the pulling power on 
the water element of the body will be towards the 
cell instead of away from the cell; so that the wa¬ 
ter will pass into the bloodstream and then from 
the bloodsteam into the cells, instead of pulling 
the water out of the cells and into the bloodstream, 
from whence it must be discharged. 

We even train ourselves to eat too much salt. 
The packing houses, without ever intending to do 
any harm, have been advertising and promoting 
salt meats for years, and it is being eaten in large 
quantities. It is purely a problem of commercial¬ 
ism, for some method must be devised of preserv¬ 
ing the meat. Meat cannot be consumed every 
day in just the right volume from a commercial 
standpoint, and it is cheaper to salt meat down 
than it is to keep it frozen. Certain types of meat 
are very easily handled this way—such as bacon 
and ham, and there are those who have cultivated 
a taste and habit for this kind of meat to the ex¬ 
tent that they are everlastingly and constantly 
overloading the food canal with a surplus of salt. 




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THE SALT HABIT 

When the taste for salt is once cultivated the 
habit grows. There are those who sprinkle a thick 
layer of salt on their potatoes and meat, and some¬ 
times you see them put salt on their bread and 
butter. They want everything salted down. It is 
perhaps more common among the commercial trav¬ 
eling men of the country who move from one point 
to another and eat in all kinds of hotels and res¬ 
taurants. They become almost nauseated with the 
change of foods and different odors from different 
dining rooms and kitchens, and they develop a 
habit of salting everything down, for they can eat 
it better that way. Then they go home and do the 
same thing and the good wife and mother, who 
is trying to please the bread-winner, begins to salt 
things more because she wants to please the taste, 
and the entire family gets that salt habit. 

I remember my horror one day in noticing this 
salt habit of one commercial man whom I met on 
the train. We began to discuss the great needs of 
the country. We were loyal members of the same 
great party and seemed convinced that it was our 
duty to save the land. We knew who ought to be 
president of the United States, and who ought not, 
and an election was pending. We left the train 
and went to the nearest hotel and sat down on 
opposite sides of the table and continued the con¬ 
versation. When the waiter spread the food be¬ 
fore us my companion was taking his turn at talk¬ 
ing. He was earnestly proclaiming the great po- 



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litical truths and convictions of his mind and 
picked up the salt shaker and began to spread 
salt all over everything. I watched him with amaze¬ 
ment until that amazement advanced to horror as 
I saw him shaking salt into his coffee. I ventured 
to warn him, thinking that he was so interested 
in his political discussion that he had forgotten 
himself, but he laughed at me with the remark 
that when my hair became as gray as his hair had 
become with long years on the road I would learn 
to overcome the ever-changing taste of Arbuckles 
coffee at one place, and Mocha and Java at an¬ 
other place, by salting it down, for he had discov¬ 
ered that there was only one way to make it all 
taste alike and that was to put salt in his coffee. 

The water level of the body must be perfectly 
maintained, but it cannot be maintained this way. 
All of these things described above disturb the wa¬ 
ter level. The water is vital to life. You could not 
live without salt, but the concentrated form taken 
in that way throws the whole arrangement of the 
body out of balance. It is an evil instead of a 
good. It is causing disease. It is breaking down 
health. It is necessary to life when it is used right. 
It is against nature and finally causes premature 
death when it is used wrong. There is no danger 
of not getting enough concentrated table salt. Any 
good cook is compelled to use as much salt as you 
ever need in the food canal. Under our present 
food habits there is great danger that you ivill eat 
too much table salt. 



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YOUR WATER RESERVE ADJUSTMENT 

Yon have never realized, perhaps, what a con¬ 
stant demand for water there is in the cells. You 
cannot have a surplus scattered all over the body 
and you cannot even carry a surplus of water in 
the stomach to be called upon for the supply of 
cell life at a time of need. You have never stopped 
to consider that it was necessary in the making of 
your body for the Master Mechanic of the Universe 
to provide for a surplus. 

The camel has been afforded that extra reservoir 
in the mechanical construction of his body, but 
your body was not made that way. The camel can 
go days without a drink of water by drawing upon 
his reservoir. You are only able to carry enough 
water for a few hours without taking water, or food 
containing water, but you could not even abide 
that length of time without constantly supplying 
the need if it w^ere not for the fine arrangements 
that have been made in your body for carrying a 
surplus of water. It is done as follows: 

There is a fine, thin stream of lactic acid all over 
the body. It is natural to the body. You need 
it. You never know you have acid if the acid is 
under proper control. You think you have too 
much acid at times, but it is because the acid is 
not under proper control, and it may not mean 
that you have too much acid at all. When you 
think you have too much acid it means not enough 
of the mineral alkali that controls the acid. So- 



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dium Phosphate is the mineral that controls this 
lactic acid, and the chief function of this lactic 
acid is to provide for a storing up of the water con¬ 
tent of the body. When the need for water arises 
in the cells between meals, and between drinks of 
water, this alkali breaks up the lactic acid and 
by this process releases the water that is contained 
in this lactic acid, the other waste substances pass 
out and the cells are supplied with the water in this 
way. 

This is one of the fine adjustments that have 
been made in nature for keeping the water level 
right. If it were not for this arrangement you 
could not go for several hours without a drink 
of water as you go on with the work of life. It 
would be necessary for you to be constantly tak¬ 
ing sips of water. Even then the arrangement of 
the body would have to be changed in some respects, 
for as it is, this is not the natural way for you to 
get the water. Your body is constantly replenish¬ 
ing the store of lactic acid and then is constantly 
drawing upon that lactic acid. You are made this 
way; it is the natural way; it is splendid and fine, 
and it is one of the fine adjustments of nature by 
which the water level of the body is perfectly main¬ 
tained. 


SURPLUS WATER 

It would be dangerous from the standpoint of the 
life of your body if the cells were ever flooded, or 
if the bloodstream ever became flooded. A method 




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has been devised by natural law by which the wa¬ 
ter level would be perfectly maintained, for there 
are certain conditions under which you live that 
force too much water into your body and it must 
be discharged. 

There is no danger of drinking too much water, 
because the water will not enter the bloodstream 
nor pass into the cells unless it is needed there. 
There is no danger of ever getting too much salt 
back into the cells, for you will never find any salt 
attenuated in your regular food in the organic 
form so strongly, or in such a way, that it pene¬ 
trates the cells of life to pull more water there 
than ought to be there. The excess of salt you take 
into the body that is not in the organic food form, 
will never overload the cells with water, for it 
pulls the water the other way. There is no danger 
from getting too much water from the bath tub, 
or from going in swimming, or from drinking too 
much water or any of these things, for the arrange¬ 
ment of the mechanical and chemical forces of the 
body are so perfect that it cannot come that way. 
There is one way by which you get water into the 
cells in such a volume that it overloads the cells 
and must be discharged, and that is described as 
follows: 

HOW SURPLUS WATER ENTERS THE CELLS 

Your cells must have air and the air you breathe 
is sometimes wet and sometimes dry. You have 
never thought of it before perhaps, but just the 



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same one of the most wonderful things about your 
powers of life consist in the fact that you can live 
most anywhere and breathe any kind of air, with¬ 
out noticing the effects, up to a certain limit. 

In a previous Lecture we described the method 
by which you get air. It goes to the lungs and is 
carried by the iron in the red blood corpuscles out 
to the cells. The lungs have no power to discharge 
this surplus of moisture. There is no method by 
which the water can be drained out and if the 
oxygen you breathe is saturated with moisture you 
are taking into the body a fine, thin stream of water 
all of the time. 

You breathe thousands of gallons of air a day, 
but it is very little water that goes in even if the 
air is loaded with water almost to the point of 
saturation. Some of this water may adhere to 
the epithelium lining of the nose and trachea as 
it passes along. But when the air is moist or foggy 
and that condition goes on for days and days, and 
week after week, it means that there is a fine thin 
stream of water constantly passing in through the 
lungs with the oxygen, through the bloodstream 
and back to the cells, bringing about a slow ac¬ 
cumulation of water. 

THE SURPLUS WATER DISCHARGE 

Sodium Sulphate in its work of discharging 
water has the power to take two molecules of water 
on every molecule of Sodium Sulphate and carry 




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it out of the body, but in doing this work it is dis¬ 
charged with the water and passes out of the body, 
and if the food supply, day after day, fails to bring 
up a new supply of Sodium Sulphate then this 
mineral is bound to become deficient in your body. 
It has been observed in the marshes and swamps 
in the south land, where the air is warm and so 
moist that many people are unable to live strong 
lives, that they are troubled with chills and fevers 
and have malaria and yellow fever because the 
Sodium Sulphate becomes exhausted. 

Sometimes you will notice while this is going 
on that you go for days with no sensation of thirst. 
The body is so abundantly supplied with water 
that your nerves never transmit a need to your 
consciousness. This will be true during prolonged 
wet seasons and you drink no water unless the food 
canal is so saline that water is needed to wash out 
the salt. 

At the same time you have no thirst you will 
frequently observe the kidneys are unusually ac¬ 
tive. This is often misunderstood as a bad sign 
and is given credit for causing some other derange¬ 
ments, but it is perfectly natural under the circum¬ 
stances, for it is nature’s way of carrying off the 
surplus water. The other derangements are due 
to this Sodium Sulphate and other mineral defi¬ 
ciencies that arise under this strain of unfavorable 
weather conditions. 

The work of Sodium Sulphate in discharging 
water is always done through the normal channels. 




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Water passing out through the eyes or nose, or 
through any open sore is never a Sodium Sulphate 
sign. It is the Sodium Chloride sign. Sodium 
Chloride needs are given by water passing out in 
some unnatural way, but Sodium Sulphate always 
carries water out some natural channel—such as 
through the kidneys. 

Some people have a way of selecting their food, 
or their bodies are so arranged that they cannot 
digest some kinds of food and they become defi¬ 
cient in this mineral and suffer ill-health and must 
either leave that climate and go to a dryer climate, 
or if they are unable to do that suffer for a few 
years and perhaps die prematurely. There are 
many likewise who have found that they cannot 
work or live in a basement. Many a man has had 
to change his occupation and suffer a reduction in 
his wages, because his employment took him into 
a basement to work and his health broke down be¬ 
cause he became deficient in the mineral that dis¬ 
charges the water which he was constantly breath¬ 
ing in the damp air of the basement. 

If you were going to select a house you would 
resist going to a basement to live if you had the 
money, or could find a house on top of the ground, 
for it is common human experience that such an 
environment is unhealthy. 

We have been advised by physicians for years 
and years to go to the mountains, or to a high dry 
atmosphere because certain individuals in almost 



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every climate have broken down for the same rea¬ 
son, that is, a constant drain upon this mineral in 
taking care of the surplus of water has pulled down 
the health until they could not stand it. 

SURPLUS WATER DISEASES 

The usual form of disease that follows this sur¬ 
plus of water is that of biliousness. It is bilious 
fever. Malaria is due to bile flowing in the blood¬ 
stream. Yellow fever is another such disease. The 
very name of that disease points to what the prob¬ 
lem is. It is bile circulating in the bloodstream. 
The only bearing the germ has is that the yellow 
fever germ is able to thrive in any human body 
when the vitality becomes low with these unnatural 
conditions. When the “Flu” swept the country it 
was a problem of bile everywhere—coming within 
the range of this Mineral Food No. 11. That dis¬ 
ease known as jaundice, the bilious color show¬ 
ing itself on the surface of the skin, is bile floating 
in the bloodstream. The reason that this thing oc¬ 
curs is that when the body becomes overloaded 
with water and the minerals that discharge the 
water become deficient and the bloodstream and 
the cells begin to be flooded with water, the bile as 
it is secreted in the liver, becomes too thin, causing 
a change in the specific gravity or density of the 
bile fluid. So that instead of passing into the bile 
ducts, down to the gall bladder and out into the 
intestinal tract where it should go, it is picked up 
and carried out into the bloodstream. It is poison 



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to the bloodstream and to the tissues all over the 
body when it is not in its natural place, and causes 
all manner of distress. 

NATURE’S EMERGENCY METHODS 

In the case of chills and fevers the spasmodic 
condition, that victims of this disease experience, 
is perfectly understood under this Mineral Food 
System. The cells of the body become saturated 
with water and this mineral is not there to take 
care of it and carry it out, so that nature resorts 
to that peculiar experience known as chills. It is 
a mechanical device by which nature squeezes the 
water out of the cells. It is a shaking all over the 
body—a mechanical distress. The nerves are called 
into play to produce spasmodic conditions. It is 
like squeezing the water out of a sponge. When 
the chills subside the suffering body begins to sweat 
and the water rushes out all over the body, and 
then after the sweat there comes the fever again, 
and after the fever there comes the chill again, and 
so on until the body has freed itself by this me¬ 
chanical method of that surplus of water. 

Then the suffering body will go for a few days 
until another surplus of water is collected and 
there will be another spell, and so on. It is per¬ 
fectly marvelous how wonderfully it works to take 
someone who is suffering in that way out of that 
kind of an atmosphere and up on the mountain 
top, or into a high dry climate, for they are imme¬ 
diately relieved of the difficulty. Through the long 




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209 


years of the past we have not understood what the 
causes of all of these changed conditions were, but 
under the Mineral Food method it becomes simple 
and plain. In such a case, if this Mineral Food 
System is properly followed, any one suffering in 
that way can become perfectly well and strong, and 
live in health anywhere. 

THE MASTERPIECE OF EFFICIENCY 

The water level of the body is a wonderful ar¬ 
rangement. It is more wonderful than the water 
level valve on my steam car. There is a valve on 
my car so adjusted that if anything should happen 
to the water level of the car, and the water should 
go below the point of safety, this other valve would 
shut off the burner and stop the fuel, so that my 
fire will go out in order to save my boiler. It 
was a very thoughtful device of the master me¬ 
chanic at the factory who made my car. But the 
Master Mechanic of the Universe has made won¬ 
derful devices for your body, and when the water 
level in your body becomes low you have distress 
signs that are explained in the Language of Na¬ 
ture. You are made to suffer. Your body does 
not go right. You have aches and pains and other 
signs that will tell you that the water level is low. 
You are given plenty of warning so that the fires 
of life will not burn up your cells. You are placed 
in a position where you can take care of every con¬ 
dition that arises in such a way that you will 
know all of the time just what you need in order 





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to bring the water level in your body up to the 
proper point. 

The master mechanic at the factory that made 
my car arranged pumps and a tank by which a 
fresh supply of water could be brought up, and 
it is a very efficient arrangement. But the Master 
Mechanic of the Universe, when he made your body, 
arranged so that the supply should never fail under 
any ordinary circumstances, and you were pro¬ 
vided with that fine thin stream of lactic acid as 
a reservoir to keep a supply on hand so that the 
cells of life should never fail. 

The master mechanic of the factory, when he 
made my car, arranged the valves so that if the au¬ 
tomatic arrangement to preserve the water level 
should stick fast or fail to open and my water level 
should rise to the danger point ,there is a pop-off 
valve to relieve the surplus, and it is a very efficient 
adjustment. 

But the Master Mechanic of the Universe made 
a more wonderful system than that in your body 
by which the surplus of water that is certain to 
arise under certain conditions might never cause 
a disturbance in your body. And there are signs 
given to you in the Language of Nature, which 
you have an opportunity to learn, so that you can 
always tell when the surplus of water becomes dis¬ 
tressing, and if you will follow that Language of 
Nature you can keep the water content of your 
body at just the right proportion all of the time 
by supplying the need. 



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211 


If the food system of the world had not been 
changed to such a dangerous degree that the food 
you eat was constantly failing to bring up the 
necessary mineral substances you would never 
know these problems. But the food system of 
civilized society has never been such as to give 
you that chance. The Mineral Food System comes 
to you with a wonderful hope and a tremendous 
message. It brings the only reasonable solution 
that has ever been given to the world. It is so 
fine that it always works. It is the only recom¬ 
pense to the violation of the natural laws of food 
that has ever been devised. 

A CONCLUSION OF HOPE 

It is within your power to maintain the water 
level of your body and it is certainly a worth while 
thing to do. The explanation that has been given 
of that in this Lecture should make it plain enough 
to anyone that it is not only necessary but that it 
is perfectly possible to do it. Your life will be 
more efficient; your powers will be greater; the 
force of the spark of life within you will be strong¬ 
er ; you will have comfort; your earning power will 
be increased; your influence in the business and 
social world will be magnified; you want this power 
and you want it now and if you have not already 
availed yourself of this opportunity, then how can 
you resist it longer? 



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The Mineral Food System is Your Way to Health! 
The Language of Nature Shows You the Way! 
Follow That Way! 



PUS AND THE SURGEON 
OF NATURE 

CHAPTER 12 

You have a wonderful body. It has the power to 
preserve its own life in many wonderful ways. It 
is perfectly automatic in all of its adjustments. 
The first great law of life in your body is to save 
itself. There are many wonderful ways in which 
this great and blessed law works for your well¬ 
being. In the lecture on “The Healing Power of 
Nature” you have seen this great hope and promise 
fulfilled. There is nothing in nature more wonder¬ 
ful or more splendid than the plan by which your 
own body saves its own life by performing its own 
operations. 

The world has been taught to believe in surgery. 
It is usually resorted to as an emergency measure, 
just to save life in extreme danger. But the ten¬ 
dency is growing to believe that the body is not 
made right anyhow and that some organs are use¬ 
less and dangerous and should be removed on gen¬ 
eral principles, before they get out of order, so 
that they may never cause trouble by getting out 
of order. For instance, the tonsils and appendix 
are rapidly being tabooed as unnecessary and dan¬ 
gerous mistakes of nature. 

Anaesthetics are devised that have the reputa¬ 
tion of being safe, and yet an occasional tragedy 


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of death surprises such complacent optimism even 
in an age when we are rapidly advancing to the 
faith that it is perfectly proper to “monkey-wrench” 
the body with poisons. Our hospitals and homes 
are filled with suffering victims, bandaged and 
bruised because of violent and unnatural devices 
most artistically performed. Our cemeteries claim 
their victims of premature death of lives sacrificed 
to the violent healing arts of science, and all of 
this because the world fails to see and understand 
how perfectly nature has provided for every emer¬ 
gency, no matter how desperate, if only the natural 
laws can be understood and put into the way of 
their perfect work. 


A WONDERFUL METHOD 

Nature’s method of surgery is wonderful to be¬ 
hold. It is sure in its effects. It is perfectly nat¬ 
ural and hence it is absolutely safe. No danger¬ 
ously poisonous anaesthetic is required. No blood 
poison is likely to follow. No adhesions or after¬ 
effects result from nature’s perfect surgery. No 
explorative or experimental operations ever take 
place in nature because nature’s diagnosis is cer¬ 
tain and sure. No mistakes are every made in 
nature and no gauze or tools are ever overlooked or 
sewed up in the wounds. What a blessing it would 
be if the all-sufficiency of the laws of life and of 
healing could only be accepted, believed, and fol¬ 
lowed by a long suffering world. 



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215 


In the next few pages the unnatural conditions 
that give rise to surgical emergencies, and the 
wonderful provision that has been made by the 
Master Mechanic of the Universe by which your 
life has been made safe by a natural method of 
surgery more perfect than any method any man or 
set of men ever did or ever can devise, will be ex¬ 
plained. 

Your life depends on a constant stream of air, 
water and food passing from the outside back to 
the cells where life takes place. You breathe in 
air, drink in water and eat food, and as this move¬ 
ment of air, water and food passes in, it is met 
by a constant stream of waste matter which is mov¬ 
ing out. Life in the cell consumes these elements 
and the combustion gives off a waste matter which 
must be carried out. 

These waste substances are eliminated in a per¬ 
fectly normal fashion. The gases pass out through 
the lungs and through the pores of the skin, and 
the bowels and the kidneys become the great elimi¬ 
native organs of the body, and as long as the neces¬ 
sary minerals are provided the work of elimina¬ 
tion will go forward in a perfectly normal fashion, 
for your body is automatic, providing it is fed the 
minerals or dust around which all of these labors 
and processes take place. 

In our literature you find these problems dis¬ 
cussed and explained, and you have learned that 
the Mineral element known as Lime Sulphate, 



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which we call Mineral Food No. 3, takes care of the 
discharge of broken-down food in a perfectly nor¬ 
mal way. You also find the natural work of Potas¬ 
sium Sulphate, or Mineral Food No. 7, is to dis¬ 
charge waste matter through the pores of the skin 
and through the lungs, laboring with No. 4, to 
perform that function, and so these are the nat¬ 
ural methods by which the eliminative processes 
of the body are keeping the body clean. 

You have seen that a perfectly natural food con¬ 
taining a mineral content in just the right form is 
not only a problem of taking care of life processes 
in the cell, but that nature has also provided for 
washing the body and keeping it clean by the use of 
these mineral elements which have by nature the 
chemical qualification to perform that duty, and 
when a deficiency occurs in the body in such a way 
that these eliminative processes fail then diseased 
conditions arise. 

If the skin does not do its work properly and 
the poisonous substances are thrown back into the 
bloodstream, then the bloodstream becomes over¬ 
loaded with poisonous and dangerous substances 
and the kidneys become disturbed because they are 
required to perform functions of elimination not 
naturally intended. Substances pass out through 
other organs because they cannot be discharged 
in the proper way. You have catarrhal conditions 
in the nose, or in the vagina, or in the eyes, or in 
the ears, and pus collections form because perfect¬ 
ly good and wholesome food may be contaminated 



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by contact with these waste substances, and then 
the food decays, causing other unnatural dis¬ 
charges which you frequently call pus or mucous. 
And all of nature is at work attempting to save 
your life, for the bloodstream must be kept pure 
and sweet and clean at whatever cost, and it will 
be done to the extent of nature’s power, for the 
laws of nature, as explained in the Lecture on the 
principle of the healing power of nature, are doing 
all that can be done for you every day. Nature 
is working for you and you are learning to depend 
upon nature and to believe in nature, and it is 
scarcely possible for anyone to place too much con¬ 
fidence in nature. 

The danger today is that too many unnatural 
things are done which really work against nature, 
and therefore, instead of helping nature the things 
that we do are a hindrance to nature. Many times 
outside conditions are overcome and we fancy that 
we have done a good thing because we have fought 
back a certain symptom when the fact is that the 
thing that has been done has been a positive dam¬ 
age to the body. 

THE DANGER OF UNNATURAL METHODS 

If anyone stops a discharge in an unnatural 
way and claims that he has cured catarrah, he 
frequently has only made it necessary for the 
body to do something else to work out the prob¬ 
lem of keeping the bloodstream sweet and clean, 
for the laws of nature require that your body shall 



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be clean inside. And so nature is toiling for your 
well-being even if you do complain and abuse your 
luck while you fancy that you have been attacked 
by some dreadful disease, and if you only under¬ 
stood it you would know that your life is being 
prolonged by the very symptom you complain 
about. You should praise your maker and bless 
the laws of nature for permitting you to continue 
to live under such a system of going against the 
laws of nature. 

Under our unnatural systems of living and eat¬ 
ing, unclean conditions are permitted to multiply 
and to increase within the body until the load of 
pus and waste matter keeps increasing. The tre¬ 
mendous volume of that load becomes a strain on 
the whole body, and all sorts of symptoms prevail. 
There are dizzy spells and dull days, half groggy 
days, bilious days and catarrhal conditions that 
are very distressing and sometimes painfully so, 
and the aches and pains increase. Rheumatism, 
neuritis and neuralgia develop, and one disease 
follows after another until at last it may be a can¬ 
cer, for the pus must be discharged, and one of the 
conclusions gaining rapid headway is that cancer 
is a bloodstream disease. Why a bloodstream dis¬ 
ease? Because the bloodstream is found to con¬ 
tain substances unnatural to its being, and after 
resorting to one method after another it has be¬ 
come impossible for the bloodstream to rid itself 
of these waste matters by all of the methods fol¬ 
lowed, or for some other unnatural reason a bruise 



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or an injury affords a tender spot where the ele¬ 
ments unnatural to the bloodstream can begin to 
collect and so the cancer or whatever it is begins 
to form, or gather, or grow. 

In the meantime the food is so good and more of 
it is eaten than ought to be eaten. That makes 
more waste matter because it is contaminated in 
the bloodstream and clogs up the various organs 
by which it is attempting to escape. This food is 
unnatural and demineralized and the elements that 
are necessary to take care of this increased burden 
are not there and the body suffers by reason of all 
of these things to the point of breaking. 

Flabby, sagging tissues everywhere increase the 
burden and the general health goes down. Per¬ 
haps there are boils, abscesses and carbuncles, and 
by all of these methods the thing goes on until it 
collects somewhere and has to be discharged, and 
then we hear it said that certainly there is nothing 
to do except operate as in a pus case in appendici¬ 
tis, or in a tumor, or in a cancer, or ulcer, or abs¬ 
cess, and there are those who seem to think that 
clinches the argument. 

For your happiness and future well-being we 
again come with the message that you have a body 
so wonderfully and so perfectly made that nature 
has provided for all of these things, and you need 
not fear. The laws of nature are complete. No 
man or set of men will ever be able to devise a sys¬ 
tem that will exceed the infinite wisdom of the 



PUS AND THE SURGEON OP NATURE 


Master Mechanic of the Universe, who has super¬ 
vised the perfectly wonderful and miraculous job 
of building your body, making it perfect, adjusting 
it properly and of leaving it finished in such a 
way that there is nothing better to be done for the 
preservation of your life than to trust the laws 
of nature upon which you depend. 

NATURE’S WONDERFUL SURGERY 

It is here that we approach the problem of one 
of the most wonderful and almost unbelievable evi¬ 
dences of nature’s great foresight and complete 
provision for the maintenance of your life. Do not 
be amazed; read and consider; study well the tre¬ 
mendous import of the thing we say when we say 
that under the laws of nature the surgical opera¬ 
tions that are necessary for the preservation of 
your life will be perfectly carried on without dan¬ 
ger to you and with perfect efficiency if you will 
learn how to duplicate nature’s methods by using 
a perfect Mineral Food, perfectly compounded, 
which works with tremendous efficiency. For there 
is such a thing as a law or principle of surgery in 
operation within your own body which can be 
called into action by any unnatural emergency 
that may arise. 

I, myself, have been a chronic sufferer with ap¬ 
pendicitis. I have been warned and scared and 
everything possible was done to scare me into an 
operation to have that organ removed. Somehow I 
never could quite make up my mind to believe that 



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a mistake had been made when that organ was 
placed in my body. Somehow I could never be 
convinced that nature would fail to take care of 
that appendix if I could only learn how to do the 
right thing, and yet for years this went on with 
frequent, recurrent attacks in the midst of a tor¬ 
menting fear and dread that it would some day 
cost me my life. 

I learned almost by accident that if I would stop 
eating abnormal amounts of food when that 
abnormal appetite was brought on several days 
before an attack became acute until the conditions 
came under control, that nature had some myste¬ 
rious way of working out my appendix difficulties. 
I had those experiences lying upon my bed in in¬ 
tense suffering surrounded by professional advis¬ 
ers, who with perfect honesty and deep sincerity, 
time after time told me that some day an attack 
of this nature would surely deprive me of my life, 
and that as soon as I got well enough I should by 
all means have that organ removed that was caus¬ 
ing such distress. 

But it never was done. I could never permit 
myself to believe that it had to be done, and I 
learned how to live with my appendix and I am go¬ 
ing to keep it with me till I die. I have not suf¬ 
fered with such an attack for years and will never 
have it again for I have learned by a multitude of 
experiences to let nature have her own way and 
do her perfect work. 



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NATURE’S LANCET 

There is a mineral in the body known as Silica. 
The world is full of Silica. It is the outside por¬ 
tion of the entire living world both of animal and 
vegetable. It is the mineral that causes the forma¬ 
tion of bark on the trees. It is the mineral that 
makes the little sharp points which decorate the 
leaves of corn with a glossy substance so that you 
cannot move your hand along the leaves with any 
degree of comfort unless you move it the right 
way. It covers the stalks of wheat. It makes the 
feathers on the birds and the scales on the fish 
and the hair on the rest of the animal creation. 
It is everywhere in nature; it is in the mountains 
and the rocks and we call it quartz or flint, and 
whenever you see it you see a sharp pointed forma¬ 
tion. Billions and billions of molecules of this 
quartz or flint always come to your observation 
in a way that you see a sharp point. It is sharp 
pointed on the bark of the tree; it is sharp pointed 
on the grass of the fields; it is sharp pointed on 
the hair of your head; it is the lancet or the sur¬ 
geon of nature and its work can be explained and 
understood by any person who will think as they 
read and observe what they see. This mineral is 
in your body. It makes the hair on your body and 
is the substance which makes the claws on the cat 
or the dog, or any other animal, or the hoof on the 
horse, or the cow, or the finger nails and toe nails 
of your own body, and it is found in the outside 



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covering of all forms of life both vegetable and 
animal. 

It is found in your bloodstream. It is scattered 
all through your being, but it never does the work 
of a surgeon unless there are peculiar conditions 
prevailing, and unless your life is in danger by 
reason of those conditions. Then under the laws 
of nature it performs its work in a perfectly won¬ 
derful way. It will work and you can prove that 
it will work, and the manner of its work would 
be miraculous except for the fact that it is so per¬ 
fectly natural when you come to understand it. 
The amazing thing is that the world has failed for 
so long to see the marvelous power of this agent 
of healing and comfort, this wonderful tool which 
we think is only a rock, this dust upon which so 
much depends, the greatest of all life savers, this 
Silica, the surgeon of nature. 

PRESSURE IS THE NATURAL DEVICE 

Whenever the discharges or waste matter of your 
body collect in any organ, as it did in my appendix, 
you have a condition known as congestion and in¬ 
flammation, and the stoppages are so bad that the 
bloodstream cannot circulate freely in those parts 
and then these little sharp pointed lances in the 
bloodstream—little atoms of Silica—are pushed 
up against the walls or tissues involved and the 
pounding pressure of the heart forces the blood 
up against this stoppage and the pressure gradu¬ 
ally pushes these little lances, these little agents 



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of nature’s surgery, against the tissues and the 
pressure continues there and they cannot go back¬ 
ward (in that respect resembling the experience 
you have had when you tried to rub your finger 
against a blade of corn), so it must cut its way 
through by going forward, and it never punctures 
a blood vessel or causes any serious bleeding but 
it hangs on until it cuts its way through and out 
into some other channel or passageway, out into 
some lymphatic duct or channel of escape that is 
not involved in that congestion, or out through the 
skin in some cases, and it takes the pus out with it 
and relieves the pain by releasing the congestion. 
No poisonous anaesthetic is needed and no evil 
after-effects follow. It is wonderful to behold; 
simple to understand; it always works when you 
have this Silica to work with and when the conges¬ 
tion and pounding condition described above makes 
it possible and necessary; so there is never a mis¬ 
take in nature and the natural diagnosis of sur¬ 
gery is, therefore, always sure. 

If you go right on eating more food every day, 
unnatural food that does not bring up reinforce¬ 
ments from the rear and fails to supply more of 
this mineral content for the surgical function, what 
can happen except more pus, and if, as fast as the 
passageway is opened, the pus gets out into other 
connective tissue spaces seeking a way of escape, 
then more pus comes up from the rear, then the 
sore spot becomes enlarged like an abscess or can¬ 
cer or whatever it is. 



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So the battle goes on until at last the drain upon 
the system to supply enough of this mineral to take 
care of the surgical work under the emergency 
created becomes so great that the work breaks 
down and the pus continues to collect and then you 
have to take the knife and cut it open and poison 
the body with an anaesthetic and scrape the bone, 
or drain the infected region and keep it up until the 
conditions become such that the individual gets 
so sick that he can’t eat much any more, then the 
pus may have a chance to be discharged and you 
go to bed and you lose your appetite and the pus 
is drained out at last and nature is able to do the 
fine thing of healing and a wonderful cure has 
taken place by surgical methods under man’s de¬ 
vices, we think. After all everything that man has 
done has been dependent upon the laws of healing 
within the body, working to perfect the cure, and 
it could not take place except for the laws of nature 
and it would have taken place without the devices 
of man if a natural method had been followed of 
stopping waste matter from collecting by over¬ 
feeding in the first place; and in the second place 
by providing the food that nature needed to work 
with in order to discharge what had already col¬ 
lected. 

NO DANGER OR PAIN 

The surgical function of nature is wonderful to 
behold, because it never is a painful operation. The 
nerves are not irritated by these little lances of 
nature. On the contrary nature’s surgery relieves 



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the pain which is due to congestion, and nature’s 
surgery relieves the congestion. No dangerous 
anaesthetic is required. These little agents of sur¬ 
gery in nature work in such a perfect way that they 
never do harm but they always do good, and they 
never work unless they need to work. Nature is 
perfect from the standpoint of its methods of diag¬ 
nosis. There can be no mistake ever made on the 
part of the laws of nature, for unless the conges¬ 
tion is there and the pressure is right and the 
stoppage is such as to call for the emergency meth¬ 
od of nature, the Silica, even though it may be in 
the bloodstream, will never do the work of surgery. 

In my own body these processes went on for 
years and I did not understand. My system was 
placed under the strain of providing Mineral Food 
for the blood to work with in this surgical func¬ 
tion by various methods as emergency methods 
when the food failed to bring up reserves, for all 
of this took place before I knew about Mineral 
Food. “The healing power of nature” worked in 
my body by taking from other parts of my body 
which were not essential to life the Silica needed 
to perform these necessary surgical functions to 
save my life, and this is how it was done. 

WHY I BECAME BALD HEADED 

Every function of nature is true to the laws of 
life. The hair is made by Silica. It is a fine thing 
to have hair, but it is not essential to the life of 
the organism. When the life of my whole body 




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was in danger for the want of Silica the splendid 
laws of the healing powers of nature in my body 
began to pull Silica from every portion of the body, 
and the hair was made to sacrifice, for it was bet¬ 
ter to be bald-headed and live, than to have a splen¬ 
did growth of hair on the top of my head (such 
as I once had) if it were necessary to my life to 
use the Silica to save my life instead of using it to 
grow hair. 

This continued throughout all that period of 
recurrent attacks of pus in the appendix, and the 
hair continued to gradually go during that period. 
The time came when I used to feel that it was a 
serious handicap to me that I lost my hair, but I 
have learned to be grateful to the laws of nature 
that my life was saved at the expense of my hair. 

And then, wonderful to behold, after the laws 
of nature had operated in this way to such an ex¬ 
tent that the hair was almost entirely gone all 
over the top of my head, and I had learned the 
method by which to supply to the body and began 
to feed my body what it needed, then to my amaze¬ 
ment I found that the hair began to return and 
the hair on my head that never had fallen out be¬ 
gan to grow faster. I used to have my hair cut 
twice a year and that was enough and I never 
looked ragged at that, but after I began to use the 
Mineral Food the time came when I had to have 
my hair cut at least once a month and the hairs 
began to come again on the top of the head. I 
would not give the impression in this Lecture that 



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I expect to ever have all my hair restored. There 
are many hair follicles on the top of my head that 
have been deprived of their function in life so long 
that they have become dormant and hair will never 
be restored there. But the thing that did happen 
was that the hair follicles that had not been so long 
dormant were still sufficiently vital to have their 
powers restored, and in these follicles the hair be¬ 
gan to grow. 

In the Language of Nature you have the plain, 
simple signs when Silica is needed. Whenever 
your finger nails or toe nails split or break easily 
that is a call for Mineral Food No. 12 or Silica. 
For years and years I had that sign and did not 
know what it meant. My hair was falling out and 
my finger nails could stand no pressure at all. 
They would break at the least provocation and 
I could not open my knife blade with my thumb 
nail. My toe nails were so soft they would break 
in the bed sheets unless I kept them trimmed close. 
In the Language of Nature you will find many other- 
signs by which you can know any time when you 
need Silica; signs that come long before an abscess 
or a pus condition in the appendix takes place; 
signs that are taking place in almost every individ¬ 
ual^ body who is living on refined, unnatural, de¬ 
mineralized food; signs which come to everybody 
occasionally, but which mean nothing to anybody 
unless they know the Language of Nature. Those 
who know these signs and supply these needs are 
bound to be better, feel better and work better, for 




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this Silica performs many splendid functions in 
life and health besides the function of surgery 
which is only its extreme and emergency function. 

STRANGE IDEAS 

Occasionally some one gets a very strange idea 
with regard to this mineral. One lady said to me, 
“I have signs for No. 12 nearly every day, but I 
am afraid to eat it for fear it will grow hair on my 
lip.” 

Such a thought is due to the fact that people 
do not seem to realize that this is a perfectly nat¬ 
ural method. If you were to eat Silica by the bar¬ 
rel it would never cause hair to grow in any place 
that is not natural to your body. 

And someone else comes to me and says, “I have 
gall stones, and the doctor says I need an opera¬ 
tion,” or “I have sinus trouble and he says he must 
drain the antrum,” and then they frequently say 
that they have eaten Silica for three weeks and 
can’t see any change in their gall-stone or sinus 
troubles. The presumption is that because some 
man makes a diagnosis and declares the advisa¬ 
bility of an operation, that, therefore, under the 
laws of nature the body will use Silica for that 
operation. 

In the light of the foregoing such an idea can be 
seen to be impossible. You could eat Silica by the 



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barrel and it would never do one single thing from 
the standpoint of surgery unless there was in your 
body the peculiar condition described above. That 
is, congestion and pressure which under the laws 
of nature must' be the controlling elements of the 
surgical function of Silica. A surgeon’s advice for 
operation does not mean that nature will operate. 

Another individual said to me, “I had a felon and 
I was afraid to use Silica because I was afraid 
it might make it worse by cutting it out.” Silica 
would never do anyone any harm, for under the 
laws of nature it is an agent of relief. One of the 
signs of Silica being deficient is that the feet sweat 
freely with a peculiar obnoxious odor so offensive 
in many individuals. That means that the body 
needs Silica, and if that sign is present Silica 
should be provided to the body without any fear 
of performing an operation. It would be impos¬ 
sible for any individual in the world to prevent 
Silica from doing its duty in the body if it is 
there, or to make Silica do anything unnatural 
in the body by putting it there. It will only do 
the work that it is supposed to do under the laws 
of nature in any and all events. 

The best way to tell when you need Silica is not 
to think about gall stones, sinuses, or felons, but 
take the Language of Nature and find out if your 
body is calling for Silica. If I wanted to know 
if I needed Silica I would pay more attention to 
sweating feet, or cracking finger nails, or to the 
other signs that are given in the Language of Na- 




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ture, than I would to the condition of gall stones, 
felons or any other names of diseases that we have 
thought called for the knife or scissors. And if 
I found I needed Silica I would give that to my 
body whether I had a felon, gall stones, or what¬ 
ever disease I had. And I would never use Silica 
for anything unless I found that I needed it by 
consulting my Language of Nature and taking my 
whole body into account. That is the Mineral Food 
method which we promote. That is the foundation 
principle upon which this system is based and 
those who use it that way will not be disappointed. 

All kinds of operations are being performed that 
are not needed, if only the laws of nature could 
be brought into effect. There can be no doubt but 
that if nature cannot be used and followed, if igno¬ 
rance is to prevail, and doubts and suspicions are 
to continue, there are times when it is best to use 
the knife and live a little while longer. But a 
surgical operation, with an anaesthetic, is always 
unfortunate and weakening to the body, although 
recovery under the healing power of nature does 
follow for a little while until something else sets 
in. But how can anyone resist the tremendous 
evidence of the efficiency of nature and fail to pro¬ 
vide for himself the means and the knowledge by 
which all of these wonderful laws can be brought 
into effect for his own healing and strength and 
efficiency in the great problems of life? 

There are sagging problems. We cut open a 
vein and sew it up again after slicing out a piece, 



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to heal varicose veins. That can be done in a 
better and more natural way by giving to the body 
Mineral Food No. 1, which builds the elastic fibres 
and keeps the veins strong as they ought to be, in¬ 
stead of flabby and weak. We cut off a pile for the 
same reason because the elastic fibres will not hold 
the parts in place. We cut off a tumor, which is 
only a flabby condition where blood, corruption 
and pus have gathered, and all could have been 
squeezed out and restored to their proper form by 
feeding the body the thing it is calling for and 
answering the calls of nature. Appendicitis, which 
sometimes reaches the above stage, is a sagging 
problem of flabby muscles permitting materials 
to lodge there which cause trouble because the or¬ 
gan is so weak and flabby that substances cannot 
be dislodged. Flabby stomach, flabby heart, flabby 
kidneys—all of these are conditions for which we 
operate because we can do it without killing the 
body and which we permit to go on until in a case 
like heart trouble it is known that no operation 
can be performed. All of these conditions, known 
as surgical conditions, are Mineral Food problems, 
and the laws of nature will take perfect care of all 
of the surgical problems in your body if you will 
take the trouble to learn a very simple thing known 
as the Language of Nature, in the Mineral Food 
System of Health. 

YOU CAN PROVE IT 

Will you prove it? Will you help to get the 
world to see this tremendous need? The agony 





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and the death, the inefficiency and the loss of time, 
the tremendous wastage of wealth that is going on 
while we beat the thin air of defeat by doing un¬ 
natural things in the face of the fact that nature 
is waiting to be utilized. Your body is anxious to 
work and toil for you; the cells of your body will 
take care of you and the healing power of nature 
is your best friend and you are chasing diseases 
from one part of your body to another, following 
all sorts of unnatural devices which lead constantly 
to more pain, more suffering, more agony and 
sometimes premature death while the wonderful 
forces of nature are awaiting your command. 

Wait no longer. Prove it out and do it now. 
Take the Language of Nature as your great agent 
of healing, as the friend of your life. Learn the 
Mineral Food System of Health. Fall in line with 
the army of men and women who are learning how 
to duplicate nature’s processes and answer the calls 
of your body and you will be filled with enthusiasm. 
You will not be disappointed as you have been in 
the past. You will lose your fear of the diseases 
that have stricken terror to your heart which have 
been known to be fatal to others. You will build 
your health and not only be free from disease, but 
you will be astonished at your increase of efficiency, 
and the increased powers of your life, and the 
happiness that will be yours by reason of your 
strength which you have built into the bone and 
marrow and bloodstream and muscles and cells of 
your body. All of this is yours if you want it. 



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It is waiting for delivery. It is yours to command 
these forces and the means and methods have been 
perfected and are before your open mind. Grasp 
it. Take it now for your comfort and healing. 


The Mineral Food System is Your Way to Health! 
The Language of Nature Shows You the Way! 
Follow That Way! 



THE LANGUAGE OF NATURE 


CHAPTER 13. 

By Language of Nature we mean those signs or 
symptoms which your body gives you as a warning 
that some natural and necessary food is needed. 
Until you found the Mineral Food System of 
Health you never had a chance to learn the Lan¬ 
guage of Nature which makes it possible for you 
to understand those signs. This feature of the 
Mineral Food System of Health is the foundation 
of our success. 

Whenever you have a pain it means your body 
needs one of the twelve minerals you are made of, 
and the splendid thing about this is that the pain 
tells you just what mineral you need. If it is a 
dragging, sagging pain it is No. 1. If it is a beat¬ 
ing, throbbing pain it is No. 4. If it is a sharp, 
shooting pain it is No. 8, etc. 

Whenever you have a discharge from your eyes, 
nose, ear or any other organ it means you need some 
mineral and if it is water it is No. 9. If it is a clear 
white transparent mucous it is No. 2. If it is a 


(235) 


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thick white or grayish white substance it is No. 
5, etc. 

There are face signs. The color of the skin is 
a sign. There are tongue signs, swelling signs, and 
many other miscellaneous signs and every sign 
means something and tells just what you need. 

Every part of the Language of Nature is just as 
simple as this. It is not a problem of diagnosis. 
You do not need to know the name of your disease, 
and in fact, the less you know about that, the 
better. You simply answer the calls of your body 
for Mineral Food. 

Our Language of Nature covers every part of the 
body. We teach you how to tell what your body 
is calling for from so many different parts of the 
body and by so many different methods, that any 
one can know all of the time, just what the body 
needs. If you will follow these calls and answer 
them, and give the body what it asks for and stop 
taking unnatural drugs into the body that ruin 
your health, you will build up your body tone, and 
your health will be restored to natural strength. 

EASY AND SIMPLE 

A great hope is held out for this sick and suffer¬ 
ing world by the Mineral Food System of Health 
based on this simple and easy Language of Nature. 
It is so simple it is available to all. The longer 
you live with it, the easier it gets. There is only 



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one hard thing about it. The name of the disease 
has absolutely nothing to do with the Language 
of Nature, and some people insist on trying to 
treat their disease instead of yielding to this Lan¬ 
guage of Nature method. Those who do make this 
their stumbling block get discouraged. 

Four years of experience in promoting this Min¬ 
eral Food System has proven beyond a shadow of 
doubt that those who quickly absorb this idea at 
the beginning are the first to win their victory. 
You must brush your mind clear of that old meth¬ 
od. When this is done the rest is easy and success 
is assured. 


FIND OUT WHAT YOU NEED 

No matter what disease you have, you need the 
twelve Mineral substances your body is made of 
for your body is deficient in all of them. Here is 
the first reason why no one or two or three minerals 
will cure your disease. Therefore, it is utterly im¬ 
possible to tell what to take for rheumatism, or 
any other disease by name. But the Language of 
Nature is plain and anyone who will be satisfied to 
follow this method will have no trouble about rheu¬ 
matism or any other disease. 

And then there are some who are misled by the 
statements we make, when we explain that a pile 
is only a flabby condition that is due to a deficiency 
of Mineral Food No. 1, and we explain that this 



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mineral builds the elastic fibres, they jump to the 
conclusion that all you have to do is to eat No. 
1 until the pile is cured, but even this is not na¬ 
ture's way. Such a method fails because the laws 
of nature require that the mineral substance of the 
body shall be in just the right, proper and natural 
proportion. When any one mineral is deficient 
then all are deficient because the chemical pro 
cesses going on in the body will work to cancel 
out or change base so as to keep the proportion 
correct. Poor health results from all of these de¬ 
ficiencies. Piles are only a part of the problem, 
just one phase of the deficiencies. When you start 
to feed up on that mineral, these natural laws pre¬ 
vent you from bringing up the line at one point, 
and it is a good thing that this is so, as will be 
explained below. 


WHY THE LINE MUST BE STRAIGHT 

Whenever the line of mineral substances is not 
straight in the body,.the danger is some form of 
acute disease. A fever, severe colds, acute attacks 
of rheumatism, and all such acute sickness. The 
natural law is arranged so as to avoid acute or 
sudden severe sickness as much as possible. 
Chronic diseases which are slowly advancing dis¬ 
eases like Bright’s Disease, Diabetes, Tuberculosis, 
Piles, Rheumatism and all such perpetual suffer¬ 
ing, are the result of the mineral substances being 
low in a general way but in nearly the proper pro¬ 
portion. 



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So far as the danger of a sudden sick spell caus¬ 
ing death is concerned, you have noticed that fre¬ 
quently folks who seem to be perfectly well become 
the first victims. It is because the mineral sub¬ 
stance of the body is in that case like this. 


Good Health . . . 12 3 4 5 6_ . 7. 6 9 10 11 . _. 1 . 2 


Acute Disease Line 



V 


Nature struggles to prevent this pronounced de¬ 
ficiency at one or two points. Any one who per¬ 
mits No. 4 and No. 11 to become so seriously below 
the proper proportion is in danger of the “flu” or 
pneumonia or some other acute sickness. But the 
long standing case of T. B., or Bright’s Disease, or 
any other chronic disease would be more like this: 

Good Health. l 2 3 4 5 6 ? e 9 10 l 12 

Chronic Disease Line—_— ---- ' ~ J 

And the chief problem this time is that all min¬ 
eral substances are seriously needed, but the line 
is not so severely broken at any one or two points 
because nature has been chemically reacting for 
years to keep the right proportion by causing one 
mineral to substitute for another by changing base 
and cancelling out one after another so as to keep 
the line straight. 

At the time the “flu” passed over the country you 
noticed whole families were stricken. Those who 
seemed to be strongest were often the first and 












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most violent cases. I noticed one family where 
the father had never known what it was to com¬ 
plain before. He was the first victim and he died 
before his friends realized he was seriously sick. 
Then the mother was stricken and died, and then 
a small boy, and all of these were thought to be 
healthy. One poor little girl, weak and puny, 
thought to be a T. B., was left and she did not 
even “catch” the flu. If you have carefully ana¬ 
lyzed the foregoing you can see why. The poor 
sickly girl’s mineral substance line was weak and 
below normal but it was nearer to the natural pro¬ 
portion than those who were well and strong. It is 
more immediately dangerous to life to seem well 
with the mineral substance out of proportion than 
to be in poor health, with the mineral base low, 
but in the natural proportion. 

That proper proportion must be maintained, 
and the laws of nature operate to keep the propor¬ 
tion right. Even though the minerals are deficient, 
your body is constantly laboring to keep the pro¬ 
portion right. If you are not as strong as you 
should be, you may not be in as great danger of 
serious acute sickness and death as some others 
who seem well and strong. Your body may be 
keeping the minerals in proper balance operating 
in such a chemical way as to keep the line straight, 
even though the line is below normal and you seem 
weak. 

But when you have the line below normal at one 
point such as in the case of a pile, and many other 




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flabby conditions in the body, if yon were to start 
to build up the health of your body by feeding 
the body only that one mineral, you can only do 
that for a short time because when you bring up 
the line to about the proportion of the rest of the 
mineral in the body then you cannot use any more 
of that mineral to any good advantage. 

You will find that you can not go any further 
until you have provided the body with other min¬ 
erals that were needed. The following chart may 
help to make that plain: 

Good Health .... 1. 1 ■?--* ? ■ . 



You will notice on this chart that the good health 
or normal line of the twelve minerals is given, 
not equal amounts but correct proportion, and be¬ 
low that, another line is drawn, and it shows that 
No. 1 is low, and that individual has soft, flabby 
muscles and weak flabby conditions probably all 
over the body and the most distressing thing may 
be piles. Now if that individual undertakes to 
feed the body No. 1, he can bring that line up as 
indicated by the dotted line which will day by 
day be improving the No. 1 conditions in a gen¬ 
eral way first but will not have much effect on the 
piles for a time. 

The condition of piles will not be overcome by 
just feeding No. 1, for when that dotted line reaches 
the level of the low line of minerals in his body, 





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then the body will give calls and indicate the need 
for other minerals, and the other calls must be 
answered and the whole line be gradually brought 
up as indicated by the chart above, for it must all 
come up to the normal line of health and strength 
throughout the whole body in a perfectly natural 
way by keeping that line straight. 

Therefore, there is no specific remedy for any 
disease, by the Mineral Food way nor by any other 
way. There cannot be because it is unnatural and, 
therefore, those who attempt to force nature suffer 
disappointment by refusing to accept these impor¬ 
tant natural principles. Do not try to treat dis¬ 
eases, but build your health the Mineral Food way. 
Answer the calls as given to you in the Language 
of Nature, taking into account every part of your 
body, finding out each day what the body needs 
most. Supply that need and build up your general 
health by keeping the line straight, and when done 
this way you can reach any goal and overcome any 
and all conditions that are distressing in your 
body. 

Very frequently some such case arises as that of 
a recent mother who wrote to me and said, “I read 
in your lessons that Mineral Food No. 5 controls 
the fibrin and keeps the fibrin from passing out, 
which causes measles, and when the measles came 
into our neighborhood I fed my boy No. 5 and he 
got the measles just the same and he had a very 
severe attack and I cannot understand why.” 



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That is an attempt to make the Mineral Food 
System of Health work on the principle of pre¬ 
venting a disease by using Mineral Food No. 5 
as a specific preventive measure. This is not 
what we claim for Mineral Food. It cannot work 
that way. 

Suppose that this boy had acid conditions as well 
as No. 5 conditions and the No. 5 mineral in the 
body was below normal, but other mineral sub¬ 
stances were lower, and it might have been that 
No. 10 at this particular time was the most press¬ 
ing need of that boy’s body. 

If so, there were plenty of signs in the Language 
of Nature calling for No. 10 that any mother could 
have understood. The breath would have been 
sour, acid stomach, acid conditions from all over 
the body that are easy and simple and plain to read 
If the boy needed No. 10 badly, and the mother did 
not supply that need first, but used Mineral Food 
in a general way as a specific preventive measure 
for measles, then she fed No. 5, no doubt day after 
day in a way that the boy’s body could not use it, 
for the line must be kept straight even though it 
is below normal, and that Mineral Food was wast¬ 
ed and never reached the point of need because 
there were other needs more pressing, and that is 
illustrated in the chart above. 

You will notice on this chart that the need of 
No. 5 was there, but a more pressing need of No. 
10, for the line was lower at that point, and so 
it was not possible to build up No. 5 until No. 10 



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was taken care of, for the line must be kept straight. 
But when the measles were epidemic that boy be¬ 
came infected because of a deficiency of No. 5. 
He was not immune. If the other needs had been 
supplied as well as No. 5, so that his body could 
have taken up the No. 5 that was given him at the 
same time keeping the line straight, even if it were 
below normal, then that boy would have been im¬ 
mune, and his bloodstream could have contained 
the serum that was necessary, and the deficiency 
would have been taken care of in a natural way. 

Under the laws of nature, everything possible is 
done to preserve the chemical balance in the body 
as near to the right proportion as possible, and so 
one condition follows another and there may be 
decayed teeth first of all and other conditions with¬ 
in the range of Mineral Food No. 1 such as sagging 
and flabby problems on the outside of the body as 
in muscles, and inside of the body in the vital 
organs of the body. And there is catarrh and 
stomach trouble and constipation and acid con¬ 
ditions and all of this is done under the natural 
laws of life, by which the body struggles along to 
keep itself well, and to fight back a physical break¬ 
down by preserving the proper balance. 

This is due to the fine principle of the healing 
power of nature, which we explain in the Lecture 
on that subject. It is nature’s way, and it is a 
blessed way, and it is a perfect way, and it is for 
your benefit, and you need to understand that all 
of these laws work to save your life and that you 



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do not need to be afraid of anything except to fail 
to fall in line with these laws. 

Long before anyone had such disease as Bright’s 
Disease, they had these other conditions or forms 
of suffering that they put up with, thinking they 
had to endure. They did not know what to do 
except to keep hoping that everything would come 
out right. But after awhile constipation and in¬ 
digestion and perhaps varicose veins and piles and 
decayed teeth and catarrhal conditions in the nose 
and other organs and perhaps acid stomach had 
progressed for months or years then finally this 
dreadful, fatal disease called Bright’s Disease, 
appears because the waste of albumen constantly 
increases, and if such a person reads that Bright’s 
Disease is a No. 2 problem, and the albumen is not 
under control of Lime Phosphate which is nature’s 
method, and assumes that No. 2 will be a specific 
remedy for Bright’s Disease and begins to eat 
Mineral Food No. 2 to cure Bright’s Disease in that 
way, then such a person is going to be disappointed. 

Under the healing power of nature the blessed 
laws that have been taking effect in the body, ex¬ 
plained in the previous Lecture, are all at work 
when you commence to use Mineral Food just as 
they were at work during the process of decline. 

This means that nothing can be done suddenly. 
The body did not get sick in a day, and it cannot 
be cured in a week. You have to call upon all 
of the forces of nature and you are going to begin 
to feed the body all of the things that are needed, 



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for if you feed just the one mineral with the idea 
that this one mineral will cure the disease, there 
will surely come a time when your body cannot 
handle that mineral any longer. It may be days or 
weeks but the time will come when you will have 
calls for other minerals that you may think have 
no particular bearing on your disease but you must 
supply all of these needs to keep the line straight. 

It very frequently happens that somebody has 
tried to force the cure against this law and they 
become greatly discouraged and they say, “I have 
been eating No. 2 for six weeks and I still have 
Bright’s Disease.” And when I ask what other 
minerals they have used they say, “Oh, yes, I have 
been eating some of so and so and so and so, but 
why don’t I get well of Bright’s Disease?” And 
then when I ask “Are you noticing any results?” 
they answer, “Oh, yes, my piles are better or my 
stomach is better, but I still have Bright’s Disease, 
and that is what I am taking Mineral Food for.” 
Bright’s Disease is albumen passing out of the 
body and they take No. 2 to stop this and it still 
passes out, and such a person is trying to cure a 
disease in a specific way by using Mineral Food 
as a specific remedy. No such claim is made for 
Mineral Food, and it will not work that way be¬ 
cause it cannot work that way. 

But the happy thing to notice is that the stom¬ 
ach and the piles are better, so the Mineral Food 
is working and that is exactly what we are talking 
about. The process of nature in bringing about 



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health and strength by the use of the Mineral Food 
is always that way. It sets back those natural 
processes that took place all of the time that the 
healing power of nature was resisting a complete 
breakdown. 

Under the law of the healing power of nature 
your life has been saved for years by the cancel¬ 
lation of the minerals in your body so that your 
body was able to resist immediate death, and now 
by the use of Mineral Food you start the process 
the other way under the operation of that same 
law and you begin to notice that little changes 
come first and you should be happy and shout 
for joy for there is no cause for discouragement 
simply because the main disease, the final disaster 
that forced your attention upon the problems of 
health, has not immediately come under control. 

Nature is working the problem out in the natural 
way. Nature will not work the problem out in 
any other way. It is impossible for nature to do 
any unnatural thing. Nature can only follow nat¬ 
ural laws. These natural laws are for your good. 
These laws preserve your life. 

BRING UP THE LINE EACH DAY 

If you follow nature’s laws and respond to the 
Language of Nature, you will stop that cancelling 
problem. Answer your calls and supply all of 
the time the one thing needed most. It is never 
necessary to use more than two or three different 



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minerals any day. It is not best to use more at 
one time because the more you use different min¬ 
erals in one day, the more difficult you make it 
for your body to keep the line straight. The best 
way is to find where the line is lowest each day. 
The Language of Nature will show you this low 
point, for whatever mineral is called for by the 
most signs from different parts is the most needed 
mineral. The line is the lowest at that point. 

And then you supply those needs and bring up 
the line at that point, and nature is not required 
to go through those laborious processes of can¬ 
celling minerals out, for you have met the distinct 
need every day and you keep the line straight by 
giving the body what it asks for. It is easy to 
do when you get started at it right. Any one can 
do it. You can do it. 

ALL CAN LEARN IT 

I am constantly warned that this is only pos¬ 
sible for educated people. Our records prove that 
is not the case. Strange to say, the reverse is the 
truth. Our records show wonderful success among 
folks who read and write with difficulty. There 
are also university graduates who fail. Generally 
speaking the hardest to help along this way are 
doctors and nurses who have lost their health and 
seek Mineral Food relief. A doctor or nurse has 
so much to forget. They have been trained to think 
in terms of diseases more than any other class, 



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and they find it harder to bend their thoughts to 
this natural method than those who are not bur¬ 
dened by so many past habits of thinking. Suc¬ 
cess in the Mineral Food System depends on fol¬ 
lowing this simple Language of Nature way and no 
training at all is better than a handicap of training 
the opposite way. 

Any one can build up his health in less time 
than he lost it, and yet it is necessary to urge 
everybody to be patient, as they eat Mineral Food, 
for the world’s speed limit is so great that we de¬ 
mand quick cures which are unnatural and im¬ 
possible. And yet it is possible to get quick effects 
if you are contented and happy over the effects 
that you get. There will be some effects always, 
although it may not be the particular effect that 
you are asking for. You cannot take Mineral Food 
and demand that some particular disease or some 
special part of your body shall get well right now. 
If your distress is in your leg, the laws of nature 
may demand that your heart shall be taken care 
of first and this brings in the great law which we 
term “Vital organs first.” 

VITAL ORGANS FIRST 

It means this: Under the laws of nature those 
organs that take care of the real life of your body 
are more important to the whole body than those 
organs that are not vital to life. It is as though 
the laws of nature said to you that your heart must 
be taken care of first of all, and if your leg hurts 



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you, cut it off and throw it away, if you so desire, 
for you can live without it. Of course, that is a 
homely and crude way to express it but the thing 
that you must do is to respect nature’s law and 
let nature take her course, and nature will pay at¬ 
tention to the vital organs of your body first, but 
eventually the lowest extremity of your weakest 
toe will be reached under the laws of nature with 
a splendid power of healing and strength coming 
to your whole body step by step in nature’s perfect 
way. 

I am reminded of that statement in the Holy 
Writ to the effect that “No man by taking thought 
unto himself can add one cubit to his stature,” and 
I want to lay down the same identical principle 
in the following statement: No man, by taking 
thought to himself can eat Mineral Food and say 
“Cure my weak spot right now.” That thought 
will not change the course of nature one iota. To 
make that demand is to fail to take into account 
the laws of nature. 

That spot you are thinking about will be cured 
according to the laws of nature in nature’s own 
good time and in a natural way, and you should 
be grateful and shout for joy as you see the 
Mineral Food System is so natural. The things 
that nature does are the things that ought to be 
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THE NATURAL DIAGNOSIS 

The things that happen first are the things that 
nature says should be taken care of first, and there 
is never any mistake made by nature in diagnosis. 
You may be more tormented in some other place 
and you may not like this law at first, but whether 
you like it or not depends upon how well you under¬ 
stand the principle. 

I remember the day when I used to berate my 
luck and condemn the Wise Overseer of all nature 
because I had a dreadful and incurable and fatal 
disease. I can remember how hard it used to be 
for me to see why in the prime of life I needed to 
be stricken down with my terrible disease, but as 
I came to understand these laws of nature I saw 
that if my bloodstream had not found methods 
of eliminating the poisons I would have died an 
almost instant death from blood poisoning or some 
other dreadful way long before I ever worked out 
the Mineral Food System of Health. 

Every disease should be understood in the same 
way. Disease is due to the fact that nature is sav¬ 
ing your life. Every process of healing though it 
may be slow, aggravatingly slow to you, still every 
process of healing is the beneficial and splendid 
outworking of the law that you may not under¬ 
stand, but which law is for your benefit, organized 
and set in motion long before your existence be¬ 
gan, a law that I did not make and that you can- 



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not amend, a law that we can only conform and live 
up to, a blessed law, God’s eternal law, and it is 
our part to permit that law to operate by furnish¬ 
ing the body the things that are needed. 

CONCLUSION. 

In every process of nature, the best route of heal¬ 
ing is followed. Your healing can only be done by 
setting the processes backward that have been go¬ 
ing on for many years as your health has gradually 
declined. Your method is to follow nature and keep 
the line straight. Answer the calls. If there were 
a quicker way it would be to my own interest to 
find that way and to give you that way. I do not 
say this because I made it so, but I say this because 
it is so. A full and complete understanding of all 
of those principles convinces me that there can be 
no better way, and experience has taught me to 
say that I do not want a better way than the nat¬ 
ural way, for the way that has been set in motion 
by the Master Mechanic of the universe is going 
to be my way. I lift my face to Him and I praise 
His name. I humbly bend my will to His will de¬ 
termined to follow His perfect way. 


The Mineral Food System is Your Way to Health! 
The Language of Nature Shows You the Way! 
Follow That Way! 



PUBLIC OPINION 

CHAPTER 14 

A new public mind is being created by this Min¬ 
eral Food movement. 

When you learn to tell by the signs of your body 
what your needs are, you unconsciously begin to 
learn how to tell what other people need by signs 
you see in their faces. 

You begin to form the habit of noticing the 
health conditions of the stream of humanity you 
meet on the street. You cannot avoid it. You go 
to a ball game and you notice the pitcher has lost 
his control and his face has the peculiar color that 
goes with nervousness, and you say to yourself, 
“He needs No. 6.” You say to yourself if the man¬ 
ager knew the Mineral Food System he would see 
to it that his pitcher either used Mineral Food or 
he would trade him off to some other manager. 

You go shopping and notice the clerk has sag¬ 
ging lines and flabby muscles in the face and you 
feel sorry for that clerk, and you think what a 
fine thing it would be if the proprietor knew Min¬ 
eral Food as you do and would see to it that his 
clerk built up a stronger and more efficient body. 

You hear a housewife complain and look at the 
peculiar color of her face and say to yourself, “No. 
11,” and think how much more satisfactory the 

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home life would be if this suffering woman could 
only know the Mineral Food System. 

You see the business man whose face shows No. 
2 calls for Mineral Food and you realize this man 
is on the way to a breakdown, meaning a loss to 
business and broken hopes in some home, for he 
will become the victim of some epidemic or gradual 
decline, perhaps with “Bright’s Disease.” 

You notice the school boy or girl and see the 
danger signals and say, “No. 5,” and think what a 
crying shame it is that the parents of that child 
do not know how to respond to the wonderful help 
that could be obtained from the Mineral Food 
System. 

You go to the barber shop and notice that the 
hand of the man who handles the razor is unsteady 
and you think, “ No. 8.” You feel sorry for the 
man whose living depends upon his steady nerve 
and what a wonderful thing it would be if he only 
knew how to build up his health and overcome this 
difficulty that is going to interfere with his earning 
power. 

You go to church and notice that the preacher’s 
voice is not under control, that he labors hard and 
that he needs No. 1 or No. 6. You feel it is a pity 
because his noble work is not up to the best that 
is in him, for he could build himself up and be 
more efficient if he only knew the Mineral Food 
System of Health. There is no doubt in your mind 



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about these things for you have proven the system 
and you know that these things are true. 

You meet the professional man who is constant¬ 
ly taking aspirin tablets or something which you 
know is harmful, but which he must use in order 
to keep going on for a little while longer until the 
break comes. You feel sorry for him because you 
know the poor fellow is suffering needlessly and 
that he could bring his body under perfect control 
if he would only adopt the thing that has brought 
such happiness, prosperity and blessings to you 
and your family. 

Having proven that these things are so you feel 
impelled to tell your relatives and friends about 
this Mineral Food System. Some of them listen 
and accept your friendly interest with gratitude 
and prove it out with you. Others refuse to be in¬ 
terested and perhaps laugh at it. Perhaps they 
say, “Why don’t the doctors use it?” You know 
why, for you realize it is not a system that the 
doctor can follow in a professional way: You 
know that no doctor could tell you every day what 
you need unless you knew how to tell him every 
day what all of your calls for Mineral Food hap¬ 
pened to be, and you could not do that unless you 
knew the Language of Nature, and when you can 
do that you do not need to go to the doctor. 

Your experience with Mineral Food has proven 
to you that you could not afford to be without a 
full set of Mineral Food in your home all of the 



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time, for it takes care of every emergency that may 
arise. It gives you the feeling of confidence and 
security on all health problems and you could not 
feel safe without it. When you try to impress 
others they say, “Everybody is well at our house,” 
and they mean by that that each of them eat three 
meals a day and go to work or to school, while you 
can see on their faces that they all need Mineral 
Food. It cannot be otherwise for they eat an un¬ 
natural, demineralized food, the same as you eat. 

My work brings to me many touching expe¬ 
riences full of distressing tragedies. I have seen 
and heard of many heart-breaking experiences 
where relatives assembled at the grave, heart¬ 
broken about the remains of a loved one, and some 
of them know Mineral Food and its wonderful work 
and they feel that this sorrow did not need to be. 
They tried to explain and persuade the family now 
broken, but it was so new and sounded so strange 
that their interest was rejected. Now the lips 
are sealed out of respect for sorrow, but still the 
Mineral Food System has proven so wonderful to 
these who look on that they feel in their silent, but 
breaking hearts that this premature tragedy could 
have been prevented. This is what I mean when 
I say, “A New Public Mind is Being Created by 
this Mineral Food Movement.” 

THE RESPONSIBILITY OP THIS 

The development of such a public mind places 
a serious responsibility on us all. When you have 



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proven the efficiency of the Mineral Food System 
of Health and become enthusiastic about it and 
you try unsuccessfully to help others, you must 
not give it up nor be discouraged. The problem 
is too serious for that. 

It is not fair to blame anyone seriously. I can 
remember the time when I did not believe these 
things. It is time for charity, and forebearance, 
but not for discouragement. The world does so 
hate to be disturbed in its regular thinking. The 
tendency with all is to pay homage to the knowledge 
of the past. We believe in the conclusions of the 
fathers even though the conclusions may be wrong. 
The complacency of the world as to the truth of 
its conclusions is hard to disturb. We are all to 
blame. You may have been more fortunate than 
others, or you may have tried out all the old meth¬ 
ods and suffered to the point where patience was 
exhausted as to the efficiency of those old methods, 
before you heard of the Mineral Food System. 

You may have been peculiarly fortunate by read¬ 
ing some of the literature that has been coming 
out for years about the necessity of the mineral ele¬ 
ments in the body. Your mind may have been 
peculiarly fitted to receive the message with more 
interest than others. Some of these who have re¬ 
jected the thing perhaps have not been so blessed. 
They have not felt the need so strongly. They may 
not have had the same experience that opened your 
eyes. But just the same the fact that this public 
mind is being created, going so far that thousands 



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are beginning to see these things places a respon¬ 
sibility on all who know the efficiency of the Min¬ 
eral Food System. Patiently and kindly continue 
to persuade and to place the opportunity for the 
most perfect investigation in the way of all friends. 

One of the things that compelled me to leave my 
life work in which I was perfectly happy and rea¬ 
sonably successful and to go out to meet the dis¬ 
couragements of this work without capital and to 
promote this thing was a tragedy in my own life. 

My angel Mother, whose tender, nourishing care 
had made life possible, whose constant love had 
surrounded me, who had stood at my bedside and 
nursed me through the pain-racking experiences 
of sickness, and who sustained me through all of 
my trials and tribulations with a tender and sym¬ 
pathetic care that only a mother can give, my own 
Mother was suddenly stricken and taken from me. 

It was only a boil on the neck, and the boil got 
worse and became a carbuncle, and the carbuncle 
got worse and blood poison set in. Everything was 
done that science could do. The best hospital in 
the city was none too good. The service of the best 
surgeon was demanded. That awful carbuncle, 
painful beyond description, was lanced and cut 
and drained. 

I sat by the bedside of my dear Mother for long 
weary hours with an aching heart. When the time 
came each day to drain the wounds I heard my 
Mother beg for mercy. “Don’t let them do it.” “I 



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can’t stand it any longer.” Then I had to plead 
with Mother and say, “As long as there is life there 
is hope. We are doing the best we can do.” But 
she would turn to me so pathetically and say, “No, 
I can feel that I am going to die. Don’t let them 
do it. I cannot stand the pain.” And I would 
take her hands and plead with her, for the work 
had to be done. 

At last it was no use, and when the last hour of 
life was ebbing away as I waited for the final gasp¬ 
ing breath, I was compelled to feel in my heart 
that it was well. 

Six months passed away, only six months, and 
then I knew. And yet, at the very time that all of 
this was going on I was working on this Mineral 
Food System. I did not know, I could not see 
the Mineral Food application to the crisis in Moth¬ 
er’s life at that time. 

But no one will ever know the feverish anxiety 
and the intensity of my soul as I afterwards saw 
the efficiency of Mineral Food demonstrated in all 
such cases. And I have rebuked myself in the quiet 
hours of the night as I mourned the loss of my 
Mother. I have said to myself, “Why didn’t I learn 
this Mineral Food System faster?” I had to figure 
this thing out alone and I gave up many times to 
discouragements, and now I knew that I had lost 
my Mother because I was six months late. If I 
could live a thousand years it would not be long 
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which brought to me the greatest sorrow I have 
ever endured. 

As I look back over the years that have passed 
I can see that this experience has done me good. 
I wish, how much I wish, that my Mother were 
here, but after all, the heart-breaking feeling that 
I might have done better has not been in vain. 

For that experience has urged me on. No one 
will ever know the anxiety and the suffering I have 
had to endure in putting this great work before 
the public. I have been laughed at and ridiculed. 
Relatives and friends have carried it almost to 
the point of abuse in some instances. By nature 
I am sensitive. I am not hardhearted enough to 
endure such things without pain, and I have seen 
the time when I scarcely knew where the next 
meal was coming from and my own children have 
needed things I could not provide the first two 
years in this business. I could never have endured 
these trials which would have broken down any 
resolution that I might have made had it not been 
that the tragedy of my Mother’s death constantly 
spurred me on and held me to the task. 

The first years of my experience after I went in¬ 
to this business I witnessed a similar experience 
come to another life. 

A faithful mother of a home was urged by her 
friends who knew the Mineral Food System of 
Health and its efficiency to relieve her own condi¬ 
tion by this method. She talked with me person- 



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ally on one occasion. She said, “I will call you 
up some other time.” 

One day a telephone call came and this woman 
wanted to see me again. She met me at the door 
and I could see that something had happened. She 
took me to the parlor and told me this story: 

She said to me, “Do you remember my daugh¬ 
ter?” I remembered the beautiful girl who played 
on the piano the last time I called. Then she told 
me how that girl had been feeling poorly for a few 
days, but kept at her work and they thought noth¬ 
ing of it. But one evening she came home and 
threw herself down and said she was sick. She 
said everything was done that could be done, but 
all to no avail. She described how her friend had 
called upon her several days afterward and had 
very carefully opened to her mind the Language 
of Nature, and she told me how plainly she could 
see for many days and weeks before the crisis came 
those simple signs taking place in her daughter’s 
body, and she said that it seemed it would have 
been so easy to have responded to those signs, and 
asked me if I thought it possible that Mineral Food 
would have prevented these things? And then she 
broke down and wept. We talked quietly for a 
while and I felt that this was not a time for me to 
try to sell a Course of Instruction to this bereaved 
mother and I started to go, but she called me back. 
“I want to take your Course of Instruction. I 
want to prove this thing out and find out whether 
these things are so.” 




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I met this bereaved mother again and with a 
breaking heart she said to me, “There is no doubt 
in my mind but that if I had taken up Mineral 
Food a little sooner my dear girl would be with us 
still.” She said something else to me that has been 
ringing in my ears from that day to this, “Mr. 
Munsell, why didn’t you make me see this great 
need when you came the first time?” I went back 
to my office feeling that I had made a great failure. 

Experiences such as this could be multiplied, 
but the reason that I have said these things is this: 
When a man lives in the midst of experiences of 
this kind how can he help but give his level best 
to such a work? 

If it seems to anyone that I exceed the limits in 
the way I labor to put this thing into every home 
in the land, then this is my excuse, and I cannot 
help it. The experiences I have endured make me 
go the limit. I never wanted it to be so. I never 
desired to have it so. It is so because I cannot 
help it. 

I know that I can never do any family any 
greater good than to persuade and exhort all who 
come within my reach, and to do it to the utmost 
of my ability, and after I have done all of that 
I never feel that I have done enough. The aching 
anxiety of my mind and heart is such that I wish 
I could do more. I wish I had a stronger person¬ 
ality, and I wish my powers of persuasion were 
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I could say that I never fail in my efforts to per¬ 
suade folks everywhere to accept the best, the great¬ 
est, and the most wonderful thing ever yet given to 
the world on health. 


“Your message is simple and plain, 

But we are all happy today, 

We seem to be free from all pain, 

No, thank you. Not this time, Fll say.” 

One evening the music is gone, 

The sweet one who made life a song, 

The only girl left, with a moan, 

Came home, and sank down with a groan. 

The piano is silent and still. 

The home is confused, for a chill 
Takes its grip now on all in the house, 

No music now. Still as a mouse. 

“The only hope now is the knife, 

Make haste if you want to save life, 

To the hospital quick,” it is said, 

And in forty-eight hours she is dead. 

And then that poor mother, appalled, 
Remembered the day when I called, 

And she wrote me a letter in tears, 

That will live in my mind through the years. 



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“Each lesson points back to the day, 

When I said, ‘Not this time, I’ll say.’ 

You labored and argued with me 
In your effort to get me to see.” 

“It is plain to me now, but too late, 

The message is true, but I hate 
That moment, that hour, and that day, 
When I thoughtlessly, turned you away.” 

The question is now up to you. 

That question is,—What will YOU do? 


The Mineral Food System is Your Way to Health! 
The Language of Nature Shows You the Way! 
Follow That Way! 



THE HISTORY OF THE MINERAL 
FOOD MOVEMENT 


CHAPTER 15 

This Mineral Food System of Health was not 
worked out for the purpose of launching such a 
movement. It comes to you in a far more natural 
and much more appealing way than that. 

I was perfectly happy in my work as a minister 
and expected to remain in that work all of my life, 
but I found myself afflicted with an incurable dis¬ 
ease (so-called) and doomed to an early grave. I 
could not relinquish the idea that somehow there 
was a way of relief. And although all of the au¬ 
thorities were against the hope I refused to give 
up searching out a way of escape. 

I placed my first hope upon the regular ortho¬ 
dox medical systems before the world, and sought 
doctors and specialists as long as there seemed to 
be any reason for pursuing that method. 

Finally, a good friends, who was a physician, 
gave me the first hint which led me into this study 
of the mineral content of the body, and the further 
I went the more I was impressed with the reason¬ 
ableness of the thing. The newspapers and the 
magazines I picked up were constantly pointing 
to demineralized food as the great cause of disease, 
and so I plodded on with no thought of ever help- 


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ing the world, but with only one thought in mind, 
and that was the supreme thought of saving my 
own life. 

My progress was slow, discouraging, and heart¬ 
breaking. Everything that I could find had been 
arranged for doctors and led along the pathway 
of diagnosing and treating disease. The Mineral 
Food System of Health which comes to you makes 
it plain that such a plan is ineffective for the very 
good and sufficient reason that all such plans did 
not coincide with nature. Finally, because I could 
not give it up and because I kept living in the at¬ 
mosphere of the thing and proving it out, I began 
to get the idea that the name of the disease was 
not the thing to think about. That all I needed 
to do was just to feed the bloodstream what it 
asked for by natural signs, and these signs I came 
to call the “Language of Nature.” From then on 
the results were marvelous. 

“THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING” 

Sciatic rheumatism, which had tormented my 
diseased body so long, was the first serious trouble 
to come under control; constipation disappeared; 
indigestion ceased to be a trouble; the color of 
health and strength returned, and last of all I no¬ 
ticed that the diabetic symptoms began to yield and 
finally one day it dawned upon me that I had lost 
my fear of a premature death from disease causes. 
How could this fail to grip me with an enthusiasm 
that knew no bounds? 



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In the meantime I began to see the efficiency of 
this method in other members of my family. My 
wife had female troubles, for which friendly doc¬ 
tors were suggesting serious operations against 
the sex nature. Besides that she showed marked 
tendencies toward “T. B.” The way she recovered 
from these ailments amazed me. My older boy had 
a fight for life from the day of his birth and was 
never seriously sick after a good start on Mineral 
Food. In this way one surprise after another in¬ 
creased my enthusiasm. But still I had no thought 
of making this a business proposition. 

The story of the development of this great Min¬ 
eral Food movement begins with its connection to 
my work as a minister. It was my duty to call 
on the sick and suffering of my parish. If a doc¬ 
tor was waiting upon them of course my lips were 
sealed, but there were some with rheumatism and 
hay fever and asthma and such complaints whom 
the doctors had given up trying to help; or who had 
themselves given up trying to find help convinced 
they must suffer on. I did not try to sell them 
anything, for I had a good living as it was, but 
I was beginning to feel so sure they did not need 
to suffer if they knew, what I had found. I could 
not resist explaining what I had learned to these 
friends and some of them listened gladly as I talked 
about the mineral elements and needs of the body 
and my method of knowing what the needs of the 
body were and how to supply that need. Not a 
medicine, but just Mineral Food. Those who were 



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willing to learn this method I gladly helped by 
teaching them. I always refused to prescribe for 
their diseases and insisted that they learn how to 
take care of their own problems. Soon these friends 
became enthusiastic also. But still I had no idea 
that this would some day compel me to give up 
the life work I had chosen and plunge me into the 
great health movement into which I have been 
drawn. 


A NATURAL GROWTH 

These new Mineral Food friends began to talk 
to their neighbors about this new method, and 
when they received letters from relatives about 
their sickness and suffering they told them about 
their pastor who had helped them so much. Soon 
a correspondence developed with people all over 
the country who appealed to me to give them the 
benefits of this thing, and still I did not realize 
where all of this was going to lead me. 

This correspondence grew until after a time I 
made mimeographed copies of my letters and called 
them lessons. The work continued to grow and 
the correspondence continued to pile up until fin¬ 
ally without ever intending it to be so I found 
myself a pastor of a church expected to do the 
work of my pastorate, but handicapped by an ever- 
increasing correspondence that consumed my time 
and strength. Then I began to realize that I must 
either leave the ministry and attend to this Mineral 
Food business, or I must refuse to do this corre- 



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spondence and attend to my ministry. It proved 
to be the most difficult choice and the most painful 
decision of my life. 

I troubled myself over that problem for weeks 
and months. I did not want to accept either horn 
of the dilemma in which I found myself. I did not 
have it in my heart to give up this new work, and 
I did not like the idea of giving up the work of 
the ministry, which I loved so well, to enter an 
unexplored field where I very well knew I was 
to encounter opposing forces, all alone, and without 
capital. 

My wife and I sat up long weary hours of the 
night discussing this question and unable to decide, 
until finally circumstances developed in such a 
way that I knew I would never be able to continue 
the ministry, giving all of my time and strength, 
as such a work demands, until I could satisfy this 
urging demand and prove to myself that I was 
mistaken in listening to this force pushing me into 
a work the world sorely needed and which no one 
else was doing, with no working capital and no 
assurance of success, where the chief hope held out 
was the danger of disaster and a broken heart. 

But it had to be so, and at last with much fear 
and trembling I left my pastorate and moved into 
the city of Lincoln, Nebraska, and set up head¬ 
quarters in my home, working by correspondence 
chiefly, and just letting this thing spread as fast 
as it was able to go on its own merit and the en- 



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dorsement of enthusiastic friends who had proven 
it out. 

The developments since that time have been mar¬ 
velous. The plan adopted was so ideal and so 
perfectly ethical, because I was not promoting a 
new cult of doctors to treat diseases, but was teach¬ 
ing folks how to build up their own health that the 
whole program was most gratefully received. The 
growth of the business was so slow at first as to 
demand great sacrifice and patience. My wife and 
I saw many days of heartache and financial dis¬ 
tress. It was hard to keep a family of six decent¬ 
ly clothed and properly fed. Some of our best 
friends laughed at us in our struggle and some 
told me I was crazy. My wife had to keep room¬ 
ers and part of the time we were compelled to live 
in five small rooms and eat just what we could 
honorably get. But we kept out of debt, and 
struggled on through those hard times of 1920 and 
1921—the hardest time anyone could have selected 
to start up any new thing like this without capital. 
This struggle continued throughout the first two 
years before our new work spread far enough to 
really begin to pay its own way. 

I had to print my first Course of Instruction with 
a mimeograph, cutting the stencils myself while 
my wife did the printing. It was rough, crude 
work, for we were not experts at it by any means. 
We could not get the money to have printing done. 
When we look over those old mimeograph copies 
now we are moved with conflicting emotions. We 



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laugh at them now, and then we wipe the tears from 
our eyes as we think of those days when we had 
nothing to work with but a tremendous confidence 
that our work, although humble, was meeting a 
great need. Although the printing was crude, the 
information was helpful and the Mineral Food 
worked fine. 

The wonderful results that have grown out of 
that humble beginning prove the worth of this sys¬ 
tem and vindicate the judgment of my wife and 
myself that we were simply instruments in the 
hands of a wise providence, urged and forced into 
a great divine program for the healing of all who 
will accept this new way. 

I realized from the beginning that I was not 
following in the pathway established by ages of 
practice in the healing arts, and I resolved not 
to question the honesty or intention of any other 
method, simply to promote what I had found to 
be good, attend strictly to my own business and 
leave all of the various contending healing arts 
alone. I saw that this system was not to be a new 
cult of professional doctors, but was to be a method 
of teaching folks who were willing to learn the 
natural way of helping nature to heal itself. The 
results have been marvelous. 

This is so new that we do not begin yet to sense 
the tremendous possibilities of the future. Your 
interest is challenged. Your hopes are stirred. 
Your possibilities are magnified and multiplied as 



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you look more carefully into the great work that 
is being done. You need have no fears. You are 
not asked to make an experiment except from the 
standpoint of your own proving. The experiment 
has been made and completed before you. The 
system has been proven in hundreds and thousands 
of cases and you have no reason for further doubt. 
No matter what your discouragements may be you 
owe it to yourself and your family and to society, 
now that the message has reached you, to take 
hold and hang on and then add your energy to 
the great work of promoting this thing after you 
have proven to yourself how perfectly it works and 
how sorely it is needed by a sick and suffering 
world. 


The Mineral Food Way is Your Way to Health! 
The Language of Nature Shows You the Way! 
Follow That Way! 



MunselVs 
Mineral Food 
Bulletin 

is the official publication issued each month 
containing the latest up-to-date information 
on Mineral Food problems. 

Mr. Munsell personally edits this monthly 
magazine. You should, by all means, avail 
yourself of this helpful and interesting source 
of information on the greatest health system 
ever offered to the world. 

The subscription price is 
$2.00 a year. 


Our Mineral Food is manufactured under 
the most careful scientific supervision and 
this company is your reliable source of supply. 
Address all letters for further information to 

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